Редизайн лидерства. Руководитель как творец, инженер, ученый и человек

by John Maeda, Джон Маэда

Цитата
"Я лучше буду зеленым и недозревшим, чем перезрею и начну гнить".

О чем книга
Дизайнер в роли лидера? Это интересно! Джон Маэда - всемирно известный дизайнер, автор бестселлера "Законы простоты", один из наиболее влиятельных людей XXI в. по мнению журнала Esquire. Возглавив Род-Айлендскую школу дизайна, из профессора, не признающего авторитеты и любившего свободу и эксперимент, Маэда превратился в главу иерархической организации и вынужден был методом проб и ошибок учиться быть лидером. В своей новой книге он делится опытом и сводит воедино различные точки зрения на лидерство - художника и дизайнера, инженера и ученого, преподавателя и просто человека.

Почему книга достойна прочтения
В наше время лидер не может оставаться в плену стереотипов: жизнь стремительно меняется, и потому должен меняться и стиль руководства.
Вы узнаете, почему лидер не должен бояться испачкать руки краской, а также, почему иногда стоит начинать совещание с вопроса "Как я справляюсь с делами?".
Свежие идеи и нестандартный подход, предлагаемые автором, - прекрасная возможность взглянуть на проблему под иным ракурсом и затем выработать собственную концепцию креативного лидерства.

Для кого эта книга
Для любого руководителя независимо от сферы деятельности и опыта.

Кто автор
Джон Маэда - компьютерщик, дизайнер, чьи работы выставлялись в Токио, Нью-Йорке, Лондоне и Париже и находятся в постоянной коллекции Национального музея дизайна Купера-Хьюитт Смитсоновского института, Музея современного искусства в Сан-Франциско и Музея современного искусства в Нью-Йорке. C 2008 г. занимает должность президента Род-Айлендской школы дизайна.
Бекки Бермонт - вице-президент по медиа Род-Айлендской школы дизайна. Много лет сотрудничает с Джоном Маэдой в попытках объединить дизайн, бизнес и научное сообщество.

Особенности оформления книги
Суперобложка, закладка-ленточка (ляссе).

Genres: Business, Leadership, Design, Nonfiction, Management, Self Help, Business Leadership

104 pages, Hardcover

First published April 25, 2011

About the author

John Maeda [MY-ay-da] is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation.

Maeda's early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to traditional artistic concerns. This work helped to develop the interactive motion graphics that are prevalent on the web today. A pioneering voice for simplicity in the digital age, he also initiated the Design by Numbers project, a global initiative to teach computer programming to visual artists through a freely available, custom software system he designed.

As a digital artist, Maeda has exhibited in well-received one-man shows in London, New York and Paris. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. In the design realm, he is a trustee of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and has developed advanced projects for major corporations such as Cartier, Google, Philips, Reebok and Samsung, among others.

In 2008 Maeda was named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine. In 2001 he earned the National Design Award in the US; in 2002, the Mainichi Design Prize in Japan; and in 2005, the Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize in Germany.

A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda taught media arts and sciences there for 12 years and served as associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab. He has published four books, including his 480-page retrospective MAEDA@MEDIA and his most recent, The Laws of Simplicity, which has been translated into 14 languages. Maeda has lectured widely, including at Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, the Royal College of Art, Stanford and UCLA; at the Centre Pompidou, TED conferences and Walker Art Center; and for corporations such as Herman Miller, Sony, Steelcase, Toshiba and Yahoo!.

A native of Seattle, Maeda earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT, followed by a PhD in Design Science from the University of Tsukuba Institute of Art and Design in Japan and an MBA from Arizona State University.

Reviews

[Enikő · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite quote from the book is :
"What you say, and whether you are expressing it clearly, is more important than how you choose to say it."

[Len Damico · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only you, gentle reader, know whether you will enjoy an 80-page tome of someone explaining his pithy, cryptic tweets about leadership. I did not.

[Synexe · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE MAIN IDEA

This is a very ‘human’ story of John Maeda’s journey from MIT Professor to President of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Using a number of his historical tweets as the organizing structure Maeda shows how over the course of his tenure in his new position he went from, in his own words, operating his “own ‘organization of one’” as a tenured Professor at MIT to learning “how an organization of more-than-one is run” as President of one of the most prestigious design schools in the USA. More than anything, the book provides an interesting outline of how one person dealt with his personal growth as a leader.

INTERESTING TIDBIT

Maeda was named one of the 75 most influential people of the twenty-first century by Esquire in 2008.

WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW

Leadership is a humanistic pursuit. It’s about holding true to your values and leading by example. None of this is new. What is novel in this book though is the very personable story that Maeda uses to convey these lessons to the reader. More parable than how-to-guide this short and immensely readable book provides a range of really useful concepts and ideas that one Maeda has learnt and used as he has developed as a leader over the course of his tenure at RISD.

THE GENERAL OVERVIEW

Organized chronologically the book works through the various challenges and opportunities that Maeda confronted in taking on his leadership role as President of RISD.

Given Maeda’s background as creative and technologist the book follows these themes as he uses the various roles that he has held in his career as lens’ to explore the way he has developed as a leader. Building on the ‘tinker-tailor-soldier-sailor’ metaphor he uses the themes of ‘creative-technologist-professor-human’ to explore the influence that these approaches have had on his development as a leader – for right or wrong (and there are some interesting mistakes that he admits he made in hindsight!).

Ending as he does with a theme of ‘Human as Leader’ and of the power of gratefulness one can easily discern the contours of the book. Based on concepts of the leader as part of a community and the creation of shared value the book offers much for leaders working across all types of organizations at this critical juncture point in history. A book to read…and read again…and maybe again.

[Yelena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Набор высказываний, по которым запомнилась книга:
√ Работать проще если работа - просто работа, труднее когда вкладываешь душу
√ Поступать правильно важнее, чем быть правым
√ Лучше быть зеленым и недозревшим, чем перезреть и начать гнить
√ Если доверие подорвано, нужно начинать сначала. Оно как мышца, от напряжения сильнее
√ Обратная связь стимулирует развитие ума
√ В основе союзов лежит доверие
√ Недопонимание — упущенная возможность понять
√ Пример — иллюстративный метод достижения ясности
√ Отыщите правду и покажите, почему она важна
√ Хороший руководитель должен уметь вовремя остановиться, если его начнет заносить
√ Решите, каковы ваши принципы, доведите их до сведения людей и будьте им верны

[Julia Kulgavchuk · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is largely about Maeda's early time as a "suddenly" director of Rhode Island School of Design. It was definitely pleasant to read, and I'm very sympathetic to Maeda's personality after having read it. It has a good flow. What's left after the pleasant experience of reading has ended? Not much.

[Mike Peleah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and nice book about leadership. John Maeda tells his story of 'sudden leadership' from different viewpoints--as a technologist, as a professor, as a human. This 3D view of leadership is really deep and revealing.

P.S. I got this book from the reading list by Seth Godin.

[Andrei Savu · Rating 3 out of 5]

A high level take on various aspects of leadership. Short book with few insights.

[Tarık Çayır · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kitap John Maeda’nın bu zamana kadar Twitter’da paylaştığı gönderilerinden oluşuyor. Yakın arkadaşı Becky tarafından organize edilerek bir kitap haline getirilmiş. Bu gerçeği öğrendiğimde biraz keyfimin kaçtığını söyleyebilirim..

Maeda, 2008 yılında Rhode Island School of Design‘ın (RISD) rektörlüğüne getirildikten sonra yaşadığı liderlik sorunuyla nasıl başa çıktığını anlatıyor. Kitapta nasıl daha iyi bir lider olunur sorusunun cevabını yaşayarak bulmaya çalışmasıyla yakından tanıklık ediyoruz.

Kendisindeki azim, istikrar ve mükemmelliyetçilik böyle bir eseri dolaylı yoldan meydana getirmiş de diyebiliriz.

Liderliği Yeniden Tasarlamak ise işin biraz clickbait‘i diyebiliriz. Sonuçta kitap Twitter gönderilerinden oluştuğu için bir çok konu havada kalıyor. Onun için büyük bir beklentiye girmemenizde fayda var.

İleride yönetici veya lider olmak isteyenler bu kitapta anlatılanları cımbızlayarak faydalanabilir. Bazı anlattığı konuları anlayabilmek için onun perspektifinden bakmak gerekiyor. Veya benzer durumlarla karşılaşmak gerekiyor.

94 sayfalık tadımlık bir kitap. Birden okumak yerine 10 güne yayıp okumayı tercih ettim. Anlattıklarını hazmetmek ve düşünmek bu süreçte bana farklı bir bakış açısı kattı.

Okumaya gerek var mıydı derseniz? Emin değilim.

[David M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maeda is a bit odd. Perhaps that is exactly why I so like to read him. This book spoke beautifully on the complexities and challenges of leadership. It's recommended.

[Vaibhav Dubey · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great read and a must book for personal library.
Gratitude to John Maeda and Becky Bermont for compiling this masterpiece - straight from their hearts.
Simply authentic, without exaggeration and truly impactful.
The microblogs (tweets) are a treasure and a must haves in our hook banks.
The lessons shared here are based on John's experiments with leadership and truly relatable.
His portrayed differences in mindset of being a Tech leader/Professor to a Business Leader (President in RISD) are remarkable and acceptable. These are becoming part of my learning.

The book would remain as a torchbearer in my leadership journey!!
Thanks again to John and Becky for producing this masterpieceRedesigning LeadershipRedesigning Leadership!!

[Thuy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a short read but I think it will take some time to digest. His stories from "Start Here" spoke to me the strongest because it's where I'm personally at in my life:

> I received a phone call from a headhunter about the possibility of leading a major...institution. I was happy to suggest names of other people the recruiter could contact instead of me, since I didn't see myself as presidential material at the time. [...] I figured I should just "wait in line" as I'd been told.

I think more of his observations will become relatable as I gain experience. A book to put down and return to periodically.

[Andres Moreira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short & sweet book on leadership

John is a great communicator. The book is short and simple, it talks about leading in different ways from different perspectives as a human, as a professor and others.
There are great phrases and paragraphs to re read many times because they are not only accurate but also deep.

One that made me think and I love it was,
«Learning is said to be most potent when “cognitive dissonance” ocurrs. Said more simply, we learn best when we are wrong»

[Charlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful little memoir about becoming the leader of a group that leads the world in design thinking.
The son of a Japanese master craftsman, Maeda tells a collection of little stories about meetings and emails and listening that come directly from his memory, his feeling guiding the unscientific process of drawing meaning from the chaos.
The book holds little strokes of clarity from a guy who had this massive responsibility thrust upon him and subsequently did his best, carrying his humility through the golden palace with overflowing platters.

[AKM Nivrito · Rating 5 out of 5]

An honest account of one of the prominent names in design in the modern era. His unconventional career path takes a leap when he "accidentally" became the President of Rhode Island School of Design. His accounts on leadership tell a story of continuous growth and learning, and he expresses the wisdom which the experiences and the people in his life brought. It is a marvellous tale of a leader who is a creative, a technocrat, an academic, and foremost a human. A must-read for anyone who wants to explore the path of leadership.

[Timothy Spivey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quirky, concise, and fresh

Maeda’s book is a refreshing approach to leadership from a design perspective. Most leadership books come from the fields of business, education, or associated fields. Redesigning Leadership offers some fresh insights, and the authors writing style makes it a pleasant read free of bloat.

[Todd Blank · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found John to be condescending and impractical, and it felt more like a sales pitch to have more designers in leadership than how to effectively lead. It feels like his ideas are rooted in academia, and not actual business.

[Bobbi Bjornholt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not sure that this book is a gem for everyone, but I read this at a time where I could draw parallels to my own career and leadership struggles. I think Maeda validated some of my own leadership methods and pulled me through a case of imposter syndrome. ;)

[amritad · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this. thank you to the colleague who let me borrow it!! a love letter to risd’s unique community and leading it, from the perspective of one of its presidents. combining my love for risd with my interest in leadership so this really spoke to me wooo

[Renee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good snippets. Written in a bit of a jarring manner that doesn’t flow great. Insights about leadership from his perspectives as a creative, a technologist, a professor and a human.

[Mindaugas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fresh look into leadership.

[Evan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A pretty book with a few useful tidbits, but I can't say I took away anything profound.

[Paola Valladares · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book.

[Kate Sergejeva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Было пару интересных мыслей, книгой это назвать сложно, скорее брошюра в 70 страниц.
Меня не впечатлило.

[Adriana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un libro cercano y ameno, si te encuentras en una posición similar a la de John en RISD creo que te será de mucha utilidad.

[Michiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure what to make of this book. A few pieces of wisdom, but overall not a real eye opener.

[Lucille Nguyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some personal reflections on the nature of leadership in art and technology. Very fascinating to see a perspective like Maeda's across cultures and responsibilities.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite petite book full of pearls of wisdom about running a famed institution during a financial crisis. But leadership lessons could apply to any industry.

[Farhan Khalid · Rating 3 out of 5]

John and I have very different minds and ways of working. He draws to make sense of things. I take notes

Japanese Saying: Above up, there is something even higher above up

I realizes that I wasn't just missing a degree, I was missing a sense of simplicity

The word leadership is something of an anathema to creative folks as it invokes an image of authority and order over the chaos

Being prepared isn't a matter of how much you practice. It's about knowing that even if you fail, you won't give up

Work is easier whether it's just work; it's much harder when you actually care


Craftsmanship: it's working like you care

A creative leader is someone who leads with dirty hands

Designers are trained to solve problems through making and iterating. When faced with a problem, they immediately pick up a pen and start to diagram

If designer can't see it with their own eyes, then it's not real to them

Doing right matters more than being right

Artist don't distinguish between the act of making something and the act of thinking about it

For an artist, "doing the right thing" isn't about logically selecting from a set of evaluated options, but is about feeling what is right in the moment

All artists yearn to struggle. Without it, they don’t feel alive

Artists are hyperaware of their surroundings

Leading by doing ceases to be leading when you are doing more than leading

Problem with drawing a simple explanatory picture is by the it makes sense, it's too complex to reuse

Watching something being made is a powerful way to understand a concept; trying to decode just the final result, no matter how simple and visually elegant, demands an explanation how it came to be

When I can convert a "meeting" into "critique" although it opens me to all criticisms, I oddly feel more at ease

Direct critique is the fastest way to learn how to improve

Feedback makes the mind grow stronger

I've made mistakes. But the artist in me accepts the possibility of being wrong for the opportunity it provides to learn.

Art is about the unexpected

Artist rely on their intuition much more than those who are analytically trained

Analytically people tend to take a complex problem and reduce it to its component parts

A leader's job is to get people on board with his vision

Clarity dissolves resistance - Heath Bros

What it lacks in efficiency I find is well made up for in improved clarity

The shortest communication path between two people is a straight talk

Real communication is made by finding the specific part in you that "needs" to join with those same parts in others

Sophistication is the craft of subtlety that goes noticed

Being heard lessens being hurt

Votes are blind, scalable, and measurable but simplistic in their ability to capture the complexity of opinion

When the right people are all in the right room with the right timing they can make the right decision … right now

"Slides and documents aren't the point: discussion and decisions are"

Differences drives deliciousness

"Find the truth. Then show why it matters"

When trust is broken, you have to start over from the beginning

Change is managed by change

Rumors are like tumors

Constructive conflict is about building something

Destructive conflict is about tearing things apart

[Peter Mello · Rating 4 out of 5]

Artists as leaders is currently a hot topic and John Maeda, as president of the Rhode Island School of Design and formerly of MIT's Media Lab would seem to be well positioned to write about it. Maeda is probably better characterized as a designer and thought leader than a traditional artist.

I enjoyed the book but think it could have been much better if he more openly shared the challenges he faced at RISD soon after arriving. He gives us hints of what he dealt with; however, it would have been interesting to learn more about what it was like as a leader to live through a very public vote of no confidence by faculty and students.

All in all I enjoyed the book and recommend it, especially to all those artists who are burgeoning leaders and leaders who are burgeoning artists.

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simplicity leads, an academic trained to speak his mind (normally do/dont?), all artists yearn to struggle, stories trump statistics(truth?), green grows vs right rots, spending transparency, (do critical thinkers self-reflect), listen & debate what is real, diverse groups yield best solutions and homogenous less (academie), entitlement is farthest from enlightenment (tenure), Right people Rdecisions Rnow, change & uncertainty produce rumors and disarray(obama/fdr planners32-37), reveal key facts, humility is noble vs egotistical talk about self (this book), humor keeps us human, learning to be a leader, lots of 140 char messages