Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Designed Leadership uses field-tested examples to teach high-level thinking, theorizing, and practicing.
Trade ReviewThis book contributes a very thoughtful set of observations about the principles and practices of successful leaders who rely on a ‘strategic design’ approach. Moura Quayle draws on a diverse and impressive range of personal leadership experiences to illustrate and emphasize her points. Insightful, yet still accessible. -- 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. Quayle’s book builds on sound theoretical insights, but brings those insights to ground in practical applications that managers of all levels can appreciate. The book emphasizes opportunities rather than problems, and in this the author offers a positive perspective.
Designed Leadership means more effective leadership, and this is something that we need more than ever in a complex and changing world. -- Richard Buchanan, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
A great guide and resource...one of the more immediately applicable books you'll read this year. * 800-CEO-READ *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
I. Principles and Methods1. Ten Principles for Designed Leadership
2. Strategic Design Method: Ask, Try, Do
II. Learning and Practice3. Thinking Visually and Spatially
4. Places to Practice Designed Leadership
5. Learning and Education for Designed Leadership
6. Designed Leadership Cases
7. Take-Away
Appendix: The Evolution of Strategic Design in Business Thinking
Notes
Works Cited
Index
