Designed Leadership (Columbia Business School Publishing)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231173121 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
(Richard Buchanan, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University)A great guide and resourceone of the more immediately applicable books you'll read this year. Insightful, yet still accessible. The book emphasizes opportunities rather than problems, and in this the author offers a positive perspective. (Jeanne Liedtka, University of Virginia Darden School of Business)This is a well-written, accessible account of what managers can learn from design to improve their practices and provide greater leadership for their organizations. Designed Leadership means more effective leadership, and this is something that we need more than ever in a complex and changing world. T
Great leaders aspire to manage “by design”with a sense of purpose and foresight. It creates the conditions for employees to thrive and for all kinds of businesses to succeed. But too few leaders incorporate the proven practices and principles of the design disciplines.Lessons learned from the world of design, when applied to management, can turn leaders into collaborative, creative, deliberate, and accountable visionaries. Quayle describes the key concepts of designed leadership, such as “make values explicit” and “learn from natural systems,” showing how strategic design can spur individual creativity and harness collective energy. Design thinking loosens the mind and activates innovation. For managers at any level, Designed Leadership uses original visuals and field-tested examples to teach the kind of thinking, theorizing, and practicing that result in long-lasting high performance in the workplace and beyond.. In Designed Leadership, the strategic-de
She has served as the deputy minister at the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Research, and Innovation and chairs national boards for applied research. Moura Quayle is professor of strategic design at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and director of the Institute for Global Issues, also at UBC.