“Still trying to get the darned book...but the author has brilliant insights about Design Thinking: "Our book approaches design as a form of leadership from two assertions. The first is the belief that good designers (when not acting as applied scientists or artists) are leaders by definition. They play an essential instrumental leadership role in any change project. The second is that good leaders, including entrepreneurs, act as designers even if they do not identify themselves as such or are not identified by others as designers. They do not define their work in the language of design because they have not been brought up in that tradition, but their intentions are nevertheless realized through designerly behavior."
I was most impressed by his path to 'now', which included education at the feet of Christopher Alexander -- but that was not who influenced him the most.
Source: http://nextd.org/02/04/03/index.html”
