Trained or Educated?
One of the Designing Leaders’ team members had a bit of a travel glitch recently. On his way to the airport to fly to Hong Kong he knew he was in trouble when he got a call that a typhoon approaching the city was going to be bad and they would be canceling the event […]
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- Aug, 31, 2017
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Aug, 31, 2017
Have the Right Space
Earlier this summer the Designing Leaders team had a chance to visit a major creative technology firm in Shenzhen, China. Being such a large company you might expect them to have a pretty large, and they did. In fact, they had 8 of them. As we drove from the building for our meeting to the […]
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- Aug, 28, 2017
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Exiting Interns
If you still have summer interns, you won’t for much longer. University classes are starting to kick off for the fall semester, and those students who have been getting the coffee and making copies (and hopefully, a lot more) for the last couple months are about to go out the door. Any good internship program […]
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- Aug, 24, 2017
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Where Do You Draw the Line?
If you want to have an innovative, collaborative, high-performing organization, then you need people with different perspectives who feel comfortable sharing their ideas. But what if those perspectives end up being damaging to your working environment? If performance drops because of the sharing of ideas, doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Open communication in the workplace […]
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- Aug, 21, 2017
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The Agility Challenge
Many organizations talk about the need for agility, and it’s not really a new concept. People have been talking about this for a few years, increasingly recognizing that the rapid pace of change is the new normal and companies that cannot operate in that kind of environment may not last very long. The difference between […]
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- Aug, 17, 2017
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