Power Trip: Why Designers Need Soft Power
Theresa FBIF食品饮料创新 “ Design is transformative. It changes people and brands. But without realization, it doesn’t reach its potential .” - Moira Cullen As a designer, you sometimes have to fight hard enough to get a seat at the table. But once you’re there, how do you actually get people to listen to you? How do you make your ideas heard and put into action? There’s the obvious route: tell people what they should do and make your case as best you can. But what if you could get people to do what you want without even having to say it to them? This is what soft power is all about. “Soft power’ is a term coined by Joseph Nye,” Moira Cullen, VP Global Design of Fortune 500 Companies Including PepsiCo, The Hershey Company, and The Coca-Cola Company explained onstage at Food & Beverage Innovation Forum 2018 (FBIF 2018). “Whereas hard power gets others to do what we want, soft power gets others to want the same thing we do.” Con...