Redesigning Leadership
Written by John Maeda and Becky Bermont
Narrated by Nick Podehl and Kate Rudd
3/5
()
About this audiobook
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor—with a love of argument for argument’s sake and the freedom to experiment—into the head of a hierarchical organization. The professor is free to speak his mind against “the man.” The college president is “the man.” Maeda has had to teach himself, through trial and error, about leadership. In Redesigning Leadership, he shares his learning process.
Maeda, writing as an artist and designer, a technologist, and a professor, discusses intuition and risk-taking, “transparency,” and all the things that a conversation can do that an email can’t. In his transition from MIT to RISD he finds that the most effective way to pull people together is not social networking but free food. Leading a team? The best way for a leader to leverage the collective power of a team is to reveal his or her own humanity.
Asked if he has stopped designing, Maeda replied (via Twitter), “I’m designing how to talk about/with/for our #RISD community.” Maeda’s creative nature makes him a different sort of leader—one who prizes experimentation, honest critique, and learning as you go. With Redesigning Leadership, he uses his experience to reveal a new model of leadership for the next generation of leaders.
More audiobooks from John Maeda
The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Redesigning Leadership
Related audiobooks
Be More Wrong: How Failure Makes You an Outstanding Leader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Changemaker Mindset: How Innovation and Change Starts with Inner Transformation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Move to the Edge, Declare it Center: Practices and Processes for Creatively Solving Complex Problems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoving the Needle: Get Clear, Get Free, and Get Going in Your Career, Business, and Life! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Science of Radical Innovation: The Six Competencies Leaders Need to Win in a Complex World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Do We Get It Back? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bringing Strategy Back: How Strategic Shock Absorbers Make Planning Relevant in a World of Constant Change Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMake It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Myths of Innovation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Design Like Apple: Seven Principles For Creating Insanely Great Products, Services, and Experiences Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Design Makes The World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pivot, Disrupt, Transform: How Leaders Beat the Odds and Survive Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get Made Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Collaborate: The Art of We Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ends.: Why we overlook endings for humans, products, services and digital. And why we shouldn’t. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurning People into Teams: Rituals and Routines That Redesign How We Work Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Change Maker's Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Leadership For You
How To Win Friends And Influence People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership 25th Anniversary: Follow Them and People Will Follow You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Principle-Centered Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Freakonomics Rev Ed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Leadership, Excellence, and Decision-Making Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do about It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline; 21 Ways to Achieve Lasting Happiness and Success Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary: Dare to Lead by Brené Brown: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Redesigning Leadership
14 ratings1 review
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5In the spirit of simplicity, this is a treatment of one man's journey through his own transformation of his career and an organization which he would lead, Rhode Island School of Design, with the chapter subtopics done in tweets (how 2013). While I like the treatment (it's under 100 pages to read, and can be read in a short plane flight), it doesn't tip the scale of a redesigning leadership. Perhaps, it does redefine leadership for the writer, as his journey was a quest to break his own glass ceiling (as an academic), and perhaps break his own outdated ideas of what leadership meant to him as an outsider to leadership.