Complex or undefined challenges require a collaborative cross-disciplinary team to create solutions. Designers bring facilitation skills to the table allowing members of the team to more easily share and communicate discipline-specific expertise. Designers can bring leadership to the process of solving complex challenges.
“Design is a process of creative thinking and innovative
action. Leadership based on systems thinking and design action
is thus about how people are caused to stand together through
an intentional process of creativity and innovation.”
Harold Nelson, President of Advanced Design Institute,
“Leadership by Design; Praxis of Intention”
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