Advancing Talent Development

Conclusion

Stretching Toward the Future

Doug Estry, Philip Gardner and Jim Spohrer

This book illustrates the T-model as a viable framework to create a strong, liberally educated college graduate who can adapt to and creatively ­innovate within a rapidly changing workplace. In a recent interview with Fortune that celebrated the 10-year release of Change by Design, Tim Brown, considered the father of the T in the United States, asserted the following imperative: to solve today’s complex problems requires integrated whole-systems design, and an “understanding a problem at its most fundamental level, locating it within its broadest context, and mobilizing the fields of expertise necessary to tackle it” (Brown and Katz, 2019). Individuals designing ...