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Planning and implementing resilience strategies in parallel with one’s annual business strategy is a best practice of leadership that takes their role of stewardship seriously.

The future of the design profession will be determined by value . . . both perceived and objectively measured.  The traditional built environment disciplines of design are all at the crossroads of relevance.

At DesignIntelligence, we contemplate leadership in this rapidly altering reality.  We wonder what the leader of the near future will have to be like. 

The pursuit of understanding is somewhat of a mystery - it occurs through different pathways, known and unknown.

We assign the idea of currency to time, which we spend. The only difference is that we don’t get to earn more time as we might earn more currency. What is equally a mystery is not knowing how much time any individual actually has left...

Every effective plan requires accountable assignments tied to time-based deliverables that individually and collectively advance the business impact and influence of the firm.

Then dynamics of the last several months are not in the normal course of ups and downs, nor the usual patterns of cyclical change.  We are in a different and unusual place...

Adopting a victim mindset is a losing proposition and frankly is not a leadership characteristic any of us should aspire to. 

As leaders, how do you effectively and successfully lead in this never-ending context of change? It begins with daily reaffirming the unchanging nature your leadership values. Leadership values are relevant and applicable regardless of what else is changing.