Developing your design-thinking capabilities is a continuous exercise in balance. The exploration of valid solutions will find its counterweight in the ability to exploit those solutions efficiently. The inner-directed work of developing your stance, tools, and experiences as a design thinker will be integrated with the outer-directed work of communicating and collaborating with colleagues who tilt strongly toward reliability (or, less often, validity). The exciting pursuit of solutions to wicked problems will alternate with the sober calculation of the business value of solving the problem.
