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Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World
by Maria Giudice, Christopher Ireland
Every generation demands different approaches from its leaders. Today’s radically complex problems require us to lead with design.
In Changemakers, groundbreaking designers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland show how and when design can spur transformation. Backed by decades of experience leading teams at some of the world’s most prominent companies—and featuring insights from some of today’s top minds in business, tech, and social justice—Changemakers offers a pragmatic, people-centered approach to change.
Part playbook, part prayer for a brighter tomorrow, Changemakers is an essential companion for designers and non-designers looking to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities.
Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design
by Maria Giudice, Christopher Ireland
In times of change, the most effective leaders harness the transformative power of design. We call these heroes of modern business DEOs—Design Executive Officers.
Just as MBAs and the military formed the 20th century CEO, design will model our future leader, the DEO.
These new leaders excel in unpredictable, fast-moving and value-charged conditions. They are catalysts for transformation and agents of change. A hybrid of strategic business executive and creative problem-solver, the DEO looks at every problem as a design challenge.
Rise of the DEO shows how and why leaders can adopt this new role. Intimate conversations with leading DEOs explore the mindsets, communities, processes and practices common to creative business leaders.
Readers will learn to identify these skills in themselves and their colleagues, and discover how to build, ,revive or reinvent their organization for whatever comes next.
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