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In an increasingly complicated environment filled with volatile dilemmas, how do we engender change? According to <\/span>Maria Giudice<\/b> and <\/span>Christopher Ireland,<\/b> authors of <\/span>Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World<\/span><\/i><\/a>, this requires leading with design.<\/span><\/p>\n In their invaluable book, Giudice and Ireland speak with changemakers across different disciplines to gain insight into the interplay between design and leadership. Here are three takeaways about creating change\u2014each from one of the design world\u2019s most influential leaders:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always tried to build a culture based on Kim Scott\u2019s concept of <\/span>radical candor<\/span><\/a>. This doesn\u2019t just mean being transparent. There\u2019s transparency and then there\u2019s clarity. I\u2019m always driving toward clarity in roles and relationships and accountabilities.\u201d <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n \u201c[Changemaking is] not accepting the status quo as the complete answer. My job is never to come in and say, \u2018I\u2019m going to do it the way it has always been done.\u2019 I often come in with the premise that the way it has been done has not been good for everybody, and part of my mission is to make sure that everybody is done right by whatever we accomplish. So basically, that means that I\u2019m often in a position of having to make change, and of having to adapt the system to achieve that goal.\u201d <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt might slow a team down when they are initially adopting and developing the behaviors and practices. That middle manager who is so resistant early on is thinking \u2018Oh my god, it\u2019s going to take two months for my team to really figure out how to do this well.\u2019 But then once everything\u2019s in place, then you\u2019re going to be on a glide path and you\u2019re going to be flying.\u201d <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Want to learn more about becoming a changemaker and leading with design? Dive into <\/span>Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World<\/span><\/i><\/a>, available in paperback and all common ebook formats. You can also listen to authors Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland interviewed on The Rosenfeld Review podcast <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an increasingly complicated environment filled with volatile dilemmas, how do we engender change? According to Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland, authors of Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World, this requires leading with design. In their invaluable book, Giudice and Ireland speak with changemakers across different disciplines to gain insight … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150108,"featured_media":237779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237767"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237983,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237767\/revisions\/237983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}John Maeda, VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, says to <\/span>lead with clarity<\/b><\/h4>\n
Liz Ogbu, Founder + Principal of Studio O, argues that sometimes <\/span>you may need to be the one who changes the system<\/b><\/h4>\n
Doug Powell, Former VP of Design at IBM, emphasizes that <\/span>temporary setbacks are just that\u2014temporary<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n