 | Do you ever have great momentum behind what you are doing and then someone who was not moving with you needed in?
When it happens in work it can be confusing and unproductive for a team. To riff on a team work cliche...these geese adapt immediately...but it's only because they have a set of simple principles that guide every movement.
It is incredibly complex - involving leadership, direction, the science of air pressure and resistance. But it is simple because it is commonly understood, agreed upon, and not debated on the fly...so to speak.
With that kind of underlying ambient process & culture, creativity & design thinking which is often cast as best unbound, and unpredictable can thrive quite nicely in a metric driven world. A reliable process, that enables exploration of possibilities creates a healthy tension leading to balance- between what Roger Martin1 calls validity and Daniel Pink2 similarly refers to as L-directed and R-directed thinking.
I think most designers know that constraints, rules, principles, and a plan are the best way to ensure "reliable validity"...although many prefer to hang out a bit longer in the sandbox.
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