Design Management: Create, Develop, and Lead Effective Design Teams

© Andrea Picchi 2022

A. PicchiDesign Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6954-1_2

2. The Building Blocks of a Design Leader

Andrea Picchi¹  

(1)

London, UK

 

More than 10,000 articles have been published on the subject of leadership in the past century, and more than 100,000 books are available on Amazon alone. Whereas some publications on leadership are based on research, the vast majority reflect the personal opinion or the passive observation of practicing managers with leadership capabilities. Despite the extensive literature available, the essence of leadership remains a challenging subject to comprehend. Primarily, discerning the nature of leadership represents a wicked problem that cannot be framed and solved without deliberate research ...