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Leading design thinking

Leading design thinking

From the course: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization

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Leading design thinking

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- Leading design thinking requires being comfortable, continually going from the details of making, to framing the effort, so the team remains in the flow of collaborative iteration. There are many kinds of leaders. Some are integrated as guides in the team, and some lead many efforts, and others are leading very large teams. Across all are several abilities, which really well support effective, creative problem solving. Understanding these abilities and your own relationship with them is crucial to developing your design thinking leadership. I see four things good design thinking leaders are able to do. And I found some strategies effective. The first is framing the problem and continually reframing it. Framing the problem means being able to go from the details available right now or from the concept explored today to the longview, really smoothly, and to have the confidence to let the details reframe the problem or the longview reframe how the details are being approached. The…

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