Design abilities can be developed and nurtured. Not coincidently, they make great leadership abilities, too. Its qualities include:  - Creativity, lateral thinking, and intuition, - Effectively clarifying and communicating concepts and ideas through models, sketches, and stories, - Being solution-focused, meaning designers make sense of a problem space by proposing and trying solutions, and - Focusing on how things ought to be versus how things are. Article: 7 Qualities of Design-Thinking Leaders