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Ten characteristics of great design leaders
After interviewing hundreds of design leaders in my recruiting business for the last three and a half years, sitting thru about 350 speeches by design leaders whilst running DMI for six years, reading...
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How to critique product design portfolios
Here are seven tips to evaluate product design portfolios Lets be honest, critiquing design portfolios can be difficult. And for the untrained reviewer, even daunting. It’s easy to get swept away by...
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Need more creative people? Use Oddball Interview questions
Need more innovation power in your company? One way is to hire more creative people, but this is easier said than done. How do you accurately identify the real creative thinkers from the rest of the...
View ArticleInterview tip by Thomas Edison
Interview tip – no salt! Here is a little story I heard from GoSchedule about how Thomas Edison conducted interviews. It goes something like this: When Edison met a potential hire, he would simply...
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Ten recruiting predictions for 2016 – and the role of design
General Electric, the nations largest industrial company, just announced it is moving it’s headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. Of their 360,000 G.E. employees globally, only 800 will go to the...
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What do UX leaders lead?
Given the right context and corporate culture, User Experience leaders can do amazing things for any company. Much like Design Leaders, here is a snapshot of what the best UX leaders lead, and it goes...
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Let’s face it, every business must innovate for the future, and innovation requires creativity. Not just creativity, but appropriately focused and managed creativity. But this kind of creativity...
View ArticleFinding X: Why T-shaped people are valuable but insufficient in an age of...
By Marty Neumeier. Companies are quickly learning that a post-graduate degree offers no guarantee of real-world innovation skills. That’s why, in design-driven organizations with multi-disciplinary...
View ArticleInterview tip: Replace the resume with a whiteboard.
Need a more innovative workforce? Then start with how you use the resume. How long has the resume concept been around, forever? How much have they evolved? While reviewing the listing of job...
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Three types of corporate culture
Have you ever wondered if corporate culture can be organized onto types? I have. In a tiny nutshell, here are what is generally accepted in the HR world as the three types of corporate culture....
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