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Challenges of leading design thinking

Challenges of leading design thinking

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Challenges of leading design thinking

- In most work in education, solutions are reductive and linear. Design thinking opens the thinking and encourages exploration. While this exploration often has great results, it does introduce ambiguity to the work and many people are fundamentally uncomfortable with ambiguity. Design thinking doesn't offer a rigid set of steps. Its activities are organized largely by the continual reframing or redefining of the problem based on current knowledge. The problems themselves are usually ones which don't have a clear answer we can measure our progress towards. A non-linear progression of steps and unclear solutions create a recipe for anxiety. Understanding your own relationship with ambiguity will help you find the strategies which work for you. Not strategies to solve for ambiguity as a problem that needs to be removed, but building your capacity for design thinking should increase the amount of ambiguity you and your teams are able to comfortably manage. There are four things that…

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