Designed Leadership

Great leaders aspire to manage "by design" with purpose and foresight, but too few incorporate design disciplines. Design thinking can turn leaders into collaborative, creative, deliberate, and accountable visionaries, creating the conditions for employees to thrive and businesses to succeed.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 16 July 2019
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Great leaders aspire to manage "by design" - with a sense of purpose and foresight. However, 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. Design thinking loosens the mind and activates innovation. It creates the conditions for employees to thrive and for all kinds of businesses to succeed.

In Designed Leadership, the strategic-design scholar and urban-systems designer Moura Quayle shares her plan for integrating design and leadership, translating processes, principles, and practices from years of experience into tools of change for professional leaders. 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. 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.

Weight: 376g
Dimension: 145 x 222 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231173131