Management is a business skill.

If you want to become a better manager, read books about it, attend school and think rigorously about it.

Leadership, on the other hand, is a human skill.

To become a better leader, you need to be determined to be a better human. To do this you need to understand who you really are and develop some objective insights and who you really are.

I have always viewed design as a transformational activity.

You are introducing something new into the universe with a specific intent. We need to ‘be’ something new to create something new. While I often focus on the ‘doing’ or the activities of creating something, the real benefit for me has been the deeper understanding of myself through the process.

It is the ‘becoming’ not the ‘doing’ that is key to achieving transformational results.