https://www.dvsngroup.com/thought-leadership/insights.html Practitioner essays on leadership, design thinking, and organizational transformation by Eric Teunissen, CM. en-us © Division Group. All rights reserved. contact@dvsngroup.com (Eric Teunissen) contact@dvsngroup.com (Eric Teunissen) https://www.dvsngroup.com/essays/design-attitude-in-leadership.html Most transformation efforts fail not because leaders lack frameworks or metrics, but because change is treated as an optimization problem rather than a design challenge. Building on Boland and Collopy's distinction between a decision attitude and a design attitude, the essay reframes transformation as an act of organizational architecture — and examines what it genuinely takes to move from endorsing a design orientation to leading from one. contact@dvsngroup.com (Eric Teunissen, CM) https://www.dvsngroup.com/essays/design-attitude-in-leadership.html Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dvsngroup.com/essays/design-as-possibility.html Transformation fails not only through poor execution but through weak architecture — and shaping that architecture is a core leadership responsibility, not a technical matter to be delegated. Drawing on Boland and Collopy's Managing as Designing, the essay treats governance, sequencing, coordination, and decision logic as design decisions. It introduces the concept of emotional architecture and argues that transformation structures must be designed for experiential as well as operational coherence. contact@dvsngroup.com (Eric Teunissen, CM) https://www.dvsngroup.com/essays/design-as-possibility.html Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dvsngroup.com/essays/leadership-as-human-art.html Effective transformation requires more than well-designed structures or coherent plans. It requires leaders who can give form to uncertainty, exercise authority with gravity, and hold open the space in which others commit to a future not yet fully realized. Drawing on Zaleznik's account of leadership in serious organizational settings, the essay develops four interconnected themes: character, imagination, interpretation, and command. contact@dvsngroup.com (Eric Teunissen, CM) https://www.dvsngroup.com/essays/leadership-as-human-art.html Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000