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Listen as we talk with experts and experimenters; disruptors and change agents; leaders and emerging leaders; and even economic wizards and movie makers about how to tackle the challenges that we face as an industry and how the decisions we make today can alter the future of the industry and society at large. Join us as we change the world through the power of design.
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Lessons in Leadership: Relational Diplomacy
The primary maker of successful negotiation rests in the themes of relational diplomacy...
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The Heartset of Resilience
David Lau is an accomplished leader and serves as a Senior Instructor with the FLETC Leadership Institute. He is a combat veteran and regularly speaks on resilience, wellness, anti-fragility, and post traumatic growth. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about his life changing deployment to Afghanistan, the examples of leadership that continue to influence him, and how a traumatic event can actually be a springboard to a deeper, richer, more fulfilling life.
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Lessons in Leadership: Planning and Focus
Like a bullet from a gun, the speed and focus of business at the start of the year gauges the velocity of the overall business for the overall year. Are you following the plan you set in place before the starting gun of the new year began?
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Designing for Disaster
Eric Cesal is a designer, educator, writer and noted post-disaster expert. He has been called “Architecture’s First Responder” by The Daily Beast for his work leading Architecture for Humanity’s post-disaster programs from 2010 to 2014. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about the red thread running through his multi-faceted career, the event that caused him to realize the true power of design, and how, with good design strategies, architects can design the disaster out of extreme natural phenomena.
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Lessons in Leadership: Reacting to Criticism
As a leader you have to give those following you the benefit of the doubt and press in to get to the truth rather than respond from your own fear of rejection. After all, rejection is perhaps the most difficult dynamic between humans, and leaders face it every day.
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Pushing Boundaries
Known for seamlessly interweaving sustainable landscapes, art, and architecture, Andrea Cochran is the founding partner of Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture and a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2023 Design Futures Council Lifetime Achievement Award. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she talks about the path that led her to the profession, the relationship between art and design, and why she thinks landscape architects are uniquely situated to help solve some of our most complex environmental problems.