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Design Thinking as a Leadership Toolkit

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Design thinking may be conceptualized as a leadership skill – to nurture leaders grounded in human needs, able to identify and formulate insightful problem statements, capable of generating rich and viable ideas, and the agility to pivot when things (inevitably) turn out different than you think.


The connections between design thinking and leadership are deep and potentially very fruitful, covering areas such as keeping the focus on the user, not jumping quickly to a single solution and sharing “low-fidelity” solutions early for quick, iterative feedback and improvement.

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