4 Quotes & Sayings By David Kelley

David Kelley is the CEO of XPLANE, Inc., an award-winning high-performance engineering firm, and author of the critically acclaimed book, Midsize CIO: Achieving Strategy through Technology (CQ Press, 2011). He is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities in the field of information technology management.

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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. David Kelley
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Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another. David Kelley
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Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process. David Kelley