Design Leadership

Business growth is rarely the result of luck. The most successful organizations achieve lasting progress because they follow a deliberate path built on strategic thinking, effective leadership, customer focus, and continuous improvement. Business Growth by Design is a practical guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, and aspiring leaders who want to build stronger businesses and create sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive marketplace. This book explores the essential principles that help businesses move beyond survival and toward long-term success.

Get your bearings as a leader, gain confidence, and learn tactical approaches from experts who have been in your shoes so you can support your team and advance your career. This book includes: how to become a design leader with insights from Netflix's Andy Law; learn how to hire people with the right balance of skills and find the best structure for your team; evaluating team members' performances, coaching to help them grow, and minimizing conflicts; and more.

This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply design thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that work.

Creating solutions to solve problems can often prove very difficult to accomplish, even for seasoned solution designers. Complex organizational problems have several stakeholders, endless variables, and a myriad of possible solutions. It's hard enough to figure out where to start, and even harder to realize what the perfect, mutually-beneficial solution is.

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

The strategic guide to life’s most overlooked game: sleep. It’s 3 a.m. and you’re wide awake, negotiating with tomorrow before it’s even begun. You’re not alone. Between 30-45% of adults struggle with restless nights and the fallout: fog, fatigue, frustration. Sleep disruption isn’t...

Employees who take care of themselves have the capacity and energy to be high-performance employees. In turn, they help leaders create high-performance companies and thriving workplace cultures. This audiobook reveals how to design a company that makes it easy and natural for employees to care for themselves and perform at the highest level.

Unternehmer und Manager wollen erfolgreich sein. So ist man laufend auf der Suche nach dem heiligen Gral, der diesen Erfolg einfacher und schneller ermöglicht. Man müsste ihn bereits erkannt haben. Welche Mechanismen sind also zu entdecken, durch die der Unternehmenserfolg höchstwahrscheinlich – oder noch besser – unausweichlich eintritt? Es geht darum, zu wissen warum man etwas macht, wie man etwas macht und darum, daraus abzuleiten, wie man es besser machen könnte. Nicht auf einer abstrakten theoretischen Ebene (bloß der Theorie wegen), sondern in der Anwendung im Alltag.

Dieses Hörbuch wird Sie mit der Einführung von Design Thinking in Ihr Unternehmen vertraut machen sowie einige der wichtigsten eingesetzten Methoden erläutern. Es zeigt, was Design Thinking bewirkt und wie es in Unternehmen eingesetzt werden kann. Design Thinker gibt es nicht nur in der Kreativwirtschaft oder im Design. Diese Methode wird von erfolgreichen Unternehmen weltweit eingesetzt, um die Qualität ihrer Prozesse und Dienstleistungen durch Überprüfung der vorhandenen Lösungen zu erhöhen.

Savvy companies today know that their success is predicated on innovation and responsiveness. That starts with social connection inside the organization. It starts by placing psychology and sociology above technology. By making work better, not just faster. By creating and growing connectedness. Doing this with intention. That’s what we call social by design.

Welche Mechanismen sind zu entdecken, durch die mit Design der Unternehmenserfolg höchstwahrscheinlich – oder noch besser – unausweichlich eintritt? Es geht darum, zu wissen warum man etwas macht, wie man etwas macht und darum, daraus abzuleiten, wie man es besser machen könnte. Nicht auf einer abstrakten theoretischen Ebene (bloß der Theorie wegen), sondern in der Anwendung im Alltag.