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What Does It Take to Create a Good Design Team?

Strategy Driven

New blood brings fresh perspectives and ideas on how to do things differently, more efficiently, or simply better. It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform.

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Recruiting is Broken, Succession Planning is The Future

Strategy Driven

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. It used to be the only tool a framer had to frame a house with.