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Title: Redesigning Leadership
Author: John Maeda
Narrator: Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-06-12
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor - with a love of argument for arguments sake and the freedom to experiment - into the head of a hierarchical organization. The professor is free to speak his mind against the man. The college president is the man. Maeda has had to teach himself, through trial and error, about leadership. In Redesigning Leadership, he shares his learning process.
Maeda, writing as an artist and designer, a technologist, and a professor, discusses intuition and risk-taking, transparency, and all the things that a conversation can do that an email cant. In his transition from MIT to RISD he finds that the most effective way to pull people together is not social networking but free food. Leading a team? The best way for a leader to leverage the collective power of a team is to reveal his or her own humanity.
Asked if he has stopped designing, Maeda replied (via Twitter), Im designing how to talk about/with/for our #RISD community. Maedas creative nature makes him a different sort of leader - one who prizes experimentation, honest critique, and learning as you go. With Redesigning Leadership, he uses his experience to reveal a new model of leadership for the next generation of leaders.

Members Reviews:
A Design Leadership Journey
Maedaâs Redesigning Leadership is an open, honest and inspiring book about lessons learned on his own journey of evolving from designer to leader. He relays his journey through learnings from different trials (some by fire) and victories in his own pathâ from MIT Media Lab to Rhode Island School of Design. He succinctly captures what it takes to apply the curiosity, creativity and grit that designers practice â yet applies it more broadly to the field of creative leadership. He provides telling examples ranging from design luminaries heâs met, to the humble determination of his own father who inspired him.
Speaking as a leader of creative teams, we sometimes feel âoutsideâ the role norms of a given business organization (or feel our colleagues might struggle to understand our unique value / perspective). Maeda correctly identifies these feelings, yet provides wit and humor I could relate to. He celebrates how design leaders must believe in the deep problem solving approaches that propelled them into roles of influence to begin with. The book ends with chapter called âHuman as Leaderâ, which celebrates our ability to inspire others while modeling humility and gratitude.
I have recommended the book to both business leaders and designers alike. Iâve loaned it to those close to me to build understanding for âwho we areâ and how leadership itself is a dynamic, creative journey. Finally, Itâs short enough to give to a colleagues and actually get read! I appreciate the succinctness of it, everything is edited for crispness and impact.

Short & sweet book on leadership
John is a great communicator.