Scott Berkun wrote: >I don't care much for management - I care about power.
Scott, Amen! Thanks for bringing clarity to this part of the discussion. I'm going to adopt that phrase as my mantra, though it may be a silent one for tactful purposes. Sure, many designers do not want to manage, but they see it as the avenue to bring design influence to the organization. Jim's anaecdotes of design success when interacting at the exectuve level rather than the project level underscore the benefits of design intersecting with management. The notion of power that comes with management has been quietly lingering in the background of the discussion, so far a tacit element of the management role. To throw it out in the open clarifies the objjective, and the means to it: to elevate the authoirty of design in an organization requires power. Management, whatever other trappings may attend it, holds that power. Get there and you can have some. Dave Scharn ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
