The meeting was about to start, and Mike wasn’t there. I went to his office to find him working at his desk. “You coming to this meeting?” I inquired. I was a newly minted associate design director at Big Spaceship, the least tenured of all the design directors. The agency was structured as collection of autonomous teams, and each team had a design director and a senior producer at the helm. I had just gotten promoted, which meant I now had my own team of 6, and I was working on my firs...
