Nobody tells you about the leadership tax when you get promoted. The meetings, the reviews, the resourcing conversations. None of it is the work. All of it is necessary. Here’s how to manage the cost.
Some of the best designers I’ve worked with were nearly invisible. Not because they weren’t contributing, but because they let the work speak for itself. Here’s why that’s a leadership problem, not a them problem.
Twenty years in design consulting doesn’t give you certainty. It gives you calibration. Here’s what the long education actually looks like, and why the practice is still humbling.
Design has been trying to get a seat at the table for as long as I can remember. I’ve started to think the framing itself is the problem. Here’s why influence follows the work, not the invitation.
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