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David M. Kelley [1951-0] American
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Businessman


David M. Kelley is an American businessman, entrepreneur, designer, engineer, and teacher. He is founder, chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University. 

Leadership, Design

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I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
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The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. Design, Leadership
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The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
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The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs? Leadership
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I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
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