Skills necessary for the design manager and the design leader

The design manager should be able to manage:design people,design budgets,design timetables,design work,design organizations. It is obvious that it is a wide range of complex skills, especially if we consider that design managers are often supposed to be the design leaders too.A design leadership requires on the other hand six basic skills:envisioning the future,manifesting strategic intent,directing design investment,managing corporate reputation,nurturing the environment for innovation,training for design leadership (Turner in MacDonald (ed), 2004, p. 14). Source: MacDonald, Stuart (ed). 2004. Design Issues in Europe Today. The Bureau of European Design Associations – BEDA, 58 p....