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Searching for results.Constraints are one of most powerful stimulants of creativity. And if you don't have the constraints, you often don't have that engine to push you forward. The constraints force you to do the right thing to say, okay…
This episode kicks off a special series recorded live at our creative leadership retreat in Sonoma, California, which we co-hosted with our friends at September Works in late September. We gathered 40 leaders from…
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To reevaluate and say, "Well that wasn't what I intended." My advice often to folks that are very career minded is that we focus in on getting back to the craft of making things. Because the more you make, the more…
Required you, your whole team, .99) beginning to come to Austin, Texas, to the studio and we put them through a one week, very intensive, immersive course, if you will. But it wasn't a generic design thinking course. It…
For us. Um, and that can be risky. And that can be scary. Uh, but often it's about evaluating, well, what if I'm not honest? What if I'm vulnerable? What then? How will my team perceive me? What happens when I make a…
Food, I didn't ever expect I was going to be able to not only try it, but to see the whole process and understand how he cooks with fire and putting the vegetables under the ground and leaving it there for 12 hours and…
Leaders. as it matures. And there is a point at which like the old guard moves on, right? Because they want more creativity, they want more freedom. And between the high turnover in our industry, the fact that a lot of…
Wrote a book about dealing with change at work, and this topic came up. And curious how you sort of help people understand like that shift in role or experiment with it or try it out if they're just curious about it…
Do things that they've never been able to do before. And so I think that's really exciting. Let's shift gears and maybe talk about working with large teams. Cause there's definitely a theme in your career. You've been…
Here we are 60 years later. And what is the top of everyone's minds is workplace, design of workplace, design How does workplace catalyze performance? And what about all the places that we work? So coming to a place…
Great work, and just kind of stay off the radar, do nothing but amazing stuff, day in, day out, and protect everybody that I have anything to do with, and shield, and protect, and just give everybody the space to do…
Creativity is a discipline in optimism because in order to move through life, you have to believe there's a better way. In order to believe there's a better way, you have to be optimistic. Then you can be creative. If…
We wire ourselves for innovation. Ideally. Our team is composed of diverse constituents that represent the people that we're serving so the relationships can be leveraged in a more authentic and thoughtful way to…
We wire ourselves for innovation. Ideally. Our team is composed of diverse constituents that represent the people that we're serving so the relationships can be leveraged in a more authentic and thoughtful way to…
And then we focused a lot of our time on workshops. So shared interests with cross functional teams that are not around products or services. So this is not about product X or service Y. This is about you're interested…
Do that comfortably. Ben, you think of teams and company culture as a design problem. Where does that perspective come from? I mean, it comes out of my experience at IDEO. IDEO treated not just the projects as a design…
Still have not been to lunch laundry My wife has and I'm I'm jealous because ah I want to go sometime but That's't happened yet. Um, oh nice, Awesome! Awesome! um. .40 Donna Yeah, it it was fun I treated myself to…
Having local leadership, having discipline leadership, um, having project based leadership. And the thing we've found, I guess, is that not one of them is perfect, but it's best to try to have a bit of a mix there so…
Create something bigger than ourselves. You just talked a little bit about feeling boxed in, and I know that there are a lot of design leaders, a lot of people in large organizations where there's personality, conflict…
Where you bring a team together and you say, look, we need to make a decision about, you know, X, Y, or Z something. That's, that's really an issue on the team. And it's just a set of activities kind of taken from the…
Comes to the collaboration piece it really is paramount that you make meaningful connections. I think that, that's where a purpose driven company has the advantage, has the edge, because you're already rallied around…
Of Business Thinking for Designers, newly published on designbetter.com. Thanks for joining us on the Design Better podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really glad to be here today with you all. Maybe let's…
Remote Work for Design Teams: Lessons in leadership, collaboration, and culture Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/remoteworkbook We’ve just published a new book on DesignBetter.com called Remote Work for…
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