Thursday, November 15, 2007

PARK:Developing Young Design Managers

Every month Park sends out a statement on a burning design management issue to 50 international senior design directors. They collect and share their opinions. This issue is about whether organizations should hire design managers straight from school and position them as design leaders. 68% agree, 19% don't agree and 13% don't know.
It's an interesting discussion and myself being a recent graduate of Design Management, understand that education in school is just the tip of the iceberg. But you know what, I got the foundation and have a lifetime to work on getting to my new goals that otherwise whould have not thought of. Some people go to have a higher education with a lot of professional experience under their belts. Education definetely challenges your mind and makes you think deeper. Daily professional job in a way prevent you from being able to be visionary and think about the higher level issues and work on it unless you get upthere and able to have the strategic conversations.

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