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Trend Watching

2023 Year in Review

In this post, I’m going to reflect on what was on my mind by looking back on some stats of my posts in 2023.

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Design Strategy Project Management Talks & Workshops

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence for Thought Leadership

Designers and strategists should cultivate a combination of emotional intelligence skills and mindsets that set them apart as influential thought leaders.

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Design Strategy Talks & Workshops

Building Thought Leadership Skills

Discover how combining thought leadership with strategic skills can enhance a designer’s ability to influence business decisions.

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Inspiration

For Inspiration: “Private Dancer” by Tina Turner

Hailed in the 1960s for her dynamic performances with her first husband, Ike, Tina Turner became a sensation as a recording artist, often echoing her personal struggles in her songs.

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Design Strategy Talks & Workshops User Experience

Bringing Business Impact and User Needs together with Jobs to be Done (JTBD)

Learn how Jobs to be Done (JTBD) work as an “exchange” currency between designers, business stakeholders and technology people.

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Design Strategy Talks & Workshops

Strategy and Thought Leadership

In this post, I argue why Thought Leadership is a critical skill for designers to become good strategists who are better prepared to influence business decisions.

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Inspiration

Remembering Massimo Vignelli

One of the world’s great designers, Massimo Vignelli, is very ill and will be spending his last days at home. His son Luca would like all those for whom Vignelli was either an influence or an inspiration to write him a letter […]

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Innovation Readings

Watch William Ury’s ‘The walk from “no” to “yes” ‘ talk at TED

William Ury, author of “Getting to Yes,” offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations — from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. (Filmed at TEDxMidWest.) […]

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Innovation Readings

Watch Derek Sivers’ “Weird, or just different?” talk at TED

“There’s a flip side to everything,” the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.

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Watch Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” talk at MIT Sloan School of Management

In “Globalization 3.0,” Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace […]