Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World
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Description
Today's radically complex problems require people to lead with design.
Changemakers is an essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities. Groundbreaking designers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland--armed with insights from some of today's top minds in business, tech, and social justice--offer a pragmatic, people-centered approach to change.
Who Should Read This Book?
Changemakers can be designers, leaders, CEOs, tech people, project managers, product people--virtually anyone who wants to embrace and address change. This book will show them how to do it by clearly defining, studying, and addressing change as a design problem to be solved.
Takeaways
- A new approach to change is emerging, and design is at the forefront of responding and provoking change.
- Purpose and passion are essential changemaker qualities.
- Change involves choosing the right problem and finding an entity open to change.
- This book will be your guide for creating and maintaining change in your organization--for you, your team, and your stakeholders.
- Leaders can design change and affect the world--this book will show them how to become that kind of leader.
- Each chapter has critical takeaways at the end of the chapter, summarizing important points.
- Each chapter gives the reader a list of extra sources to gain further knowledge.
Product Details
Price
$34.49
Publisher
Two Waves Books
Publish Date
January 17, 2023
Pages
272
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.9 X 0.8 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781959029144
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About the Author
Innovator, artist, protagonist, activist, and positive provocateur, Maria Giudice has pursued a vision of intelligent, elegant, people-centered design throughout her professional life. Her grasp of the pragmatic, the authentic, and the essential
have kept her at the forefront of design and business for over 30 years. When Facebook acquired Hot Studio, a design agency, founder Maria Guidice felt some sense of validation. For some, design is an after-thought. The acquisition sent a message to companies all over, "Design
is strategic. It's not just execution." Her expertise lies in fostering a vision and bringing people together to execute it. She knows how to overcome team silos and lead with influence instead of authority.
have kept her at the forefront of design and business for over 30 years. When Facebook acquired Hot Studio, a design agency, founder Maria Guidice felt some sense of validation. For some, design is an after-thought. The acquisition sent a message to companies all over, "Design
is strategic. It's not just execution." Her expertise lies in fostering a vision and bringing people together to execute it. She knows how to overcome team silos and lead with influence instead of authority.
Researcher, strategist, idea generator, and alliance builder: Christopher Ireland started her career with the notion that businesses could benefit from a better understanding of people and culture. Her ability to create simple explanations of complex human behavior and to translate those insights into effective design and development strategies attracted clients from both technology and consumer goods companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Pepsi, Levis, GM and more. As co-founder and CEO of Cheskin, a firm that pioneered design research in Silicon Valley, Christopher and her partners had ringside seats to unrivaled feats of creation, innovation, and reinvention. Beginning in the 1990's, she led teams exploring topics like how trends move through the teen population, how music relates to mood, the history of residential architectural styles, the power of play, the cultural and behavioral differences of girls and boys, the emerging culture of "cool" in China, the development of trust online, and the meaning of color around the globe --to name just a few. She and her partners sold Cheskin in 2007, and walked away with their sanity mostly intact. Christopher is a co-author of Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design and China's New Culture of Cool. She received an MBA from UCLA and currently teaches leadership and design strategy courses for Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program.
Kat Holmes, named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People in Business" in 2017, is founder of Kata, a design firm with the mission of advancing inclusive product development. She served as the Principal Director of Inclusive Design at Microsoft from 2014 to 2017, and led that company's executive program for inclusive product innovation. In 2018, Holmes joined Google and continues to advance inclusive development for some of the most influential technologies in the world.
Reviews
"Changemakers is a revelation. Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland have written a breathtaking book on what it really takes to create meaningful, sustainable innovation in today's world. They have deftly created a brave and brilliant manifesto on how to create change that makes a difference and makes perfect sense." --Debbie Millman, Host, Design Matters
"Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland provide an expert guide for leaders who are encountering resistance in their ongoing change efforts. Whether that is in the work they lead, the teams they manage, or the competitive space they are charged to define against all odds. Changemakers has been crafted by two extremely gifted 'changemakers' --their combined gifts are certain to nourish, protect, and heal." --John Maeda, Technologist
"In backing startups as an investor, I increasingly see founders identifying design as the
key for realizing the better future they are envisioning. This book offers an
actionable framework to be intentional, inclusive, iterative, and effective by
using design as a superpower in affecting change." --Anne Dwane, Co-founder and Partner, Village Global
"Not only are Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland two of our profession's best design-transformationalists, they have enlisted a who's who of design in business to share what's really required to be a changemaker. They dissect the mindsets, heartsets, capabilities, and approaches required to make meaningful change in an increasingly complex, volatile world." --Keith Yamashita, Founder SYPartners and The Kyu Collective
"Change is never easy nor inevitable--especially for those creating it. However, Maria and Christopher have charted the paths and created a map, complete with loot boxes and land mines, plus all of the tools to chart your own course to progress." --Nathan Shedroff, Associate Professor, CCA and author, Blind Spot
"I could not recommend this book more. Changemakers is your guide to making real change happen in any organization, through designing and co-creating change together with those who will be impacted by it, and building support for that change where it most matters." --Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn
"Change is hard, and leading change can be fraught with peril. This book is like a decoder ring for anyone seeking to make positive changes in their organization or community." --Katrina Alcorn, Design Executive, Author of Maxed Out: Moms on the Brink
"Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland provide an expert guide for leaders who are encountering resistance in their ongoing change efforts. Whether that is in the work they lead, the teams they manage, or the competitive space they are charged to define against all odds. Changemakers has been crafted by two extremely gifted 'changemakers' --their combined gifts are certain to nourish, protect, and heal." --John Maeda, Technologist
"In backing startups as an investor, I increasingly see founders identifying design as the
key for realizing the better future they are envisioning. This book offers an
actionable framework to be intentional, inclusive, iterative, and effective by
using design as a superpower in affecting change." --Anne Dwane, Co-founder and Partner, Village Global
"Not only are Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland two of our profession's best design-transformationalists, they have enlisted a who's who of design in business to share what's really required to be a changemaker. They dissect the mindsets, heartsets, capabilities, and approaches required to make meaningful change in an increasingly complex, volatile world." --Keith Yamashita, Founder SYPartners and The Kyu Collective
"Change is never easy nor inevitable--especially for those creating it. However, Maria and Christopher have charted the paths and created a map, complete with loot boxes and land mines, plus all of the tools to chart your own course to progress." --Nathan Shedroff, Associate Professor, CCA and author, Blind Spot
"I could not recommend this book more. Changemakers is your guide to making real change happen in any organization, through designing and co-creating change together with those who will be impacted by it, and building support for that change where it most matters." --Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn
"Change is hard, and leading change can be fraught with peril. This book is like a decoder ring for anyone seeking to make positive changes in their organization or community." --Katrina Alcorn, Design Executive, Author of Maxed Out: Moms on the Brink
