A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Leadership and Change
The chapter discusses how the design and construction industry, like all professional disciplines, is currently grappling with an increasingly global, digital, and market‐driven world in which both the means and methods of practice are in flux. The types of leaders who will thrive in this new context are those who are able not only to problem‐solve but also to challenge the very nature of the problem. The designer of the future will need to embrace new skills to address twenty‐first‐century issues. Translated processes like systems thinking and design thinking from fields ranging from industrial design to business to the social sciences will define new frameworks for practice. A complex environment is characterized by a change in task and relationship behavior that rapidly increases in complexity from linear and incremental to nonlinear and discontinuous. Strategic leaders approach change management through a process of influencing others in order to achieve organizational objectives. Leading the process of change can result in renewed energy and innovation; not doing so can lead to failure and irrelevance. Designers engage communities in a reciprocal relationship rather than imposing their design will in order to uncover the deep connection to place, creativity brought about by limited resources, and history of culture, art, and tradition exemplified by indigenous populations.
Leadership and Change
The chapter discusses how the design and construction industry, like all professional disciplines, is currently grappling with an increasingly global, digital, and market‐driven world in which both the means and methods of practice are in flux. The types of leaders who will thrive in this new context are those who are able not only to problem‐solve but also to challenge the very nature of the problem. The designer of the future will need to embrace new skills to address twenty‐first‐century issues. Translated processes like systems thinking and design thinking from fields ranging from industrial design to business to the social sciences will define new frameworks for practice. A complex environment is characterized by a change in task and relationship behavior that rapidly increases in complexity from linear and incremental to nonlinear and discontinuous. Strategic leaders approach change management through a process of influencing others in order to achieve organizational objectives. Leading the process of change can result in renewed energy and innovation; not doing so can lead to failure and irrelevance. Designers engage communities in a reciprocal relationship rather than imposing their design will in order to uncover the deep connection to place, creativity brought about by limited resources, and history of culture, art, and tradition exemplified by indigenous populations.
Leadership and Change
Smith, Ryan E. (author) / Carraher, Erin (author) / DeLisle, Peter (author)
2017-03-15
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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