Changemakers
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Changemakers

How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World

Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland
Rosenfeld Media LLC, 2023
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Change-makers – today’s bold developers of innovative concepts and designs – have a lot to contribute. In this comprehensive book on instigating, navigating, and advancing change, business leaders Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland explain what change-making is all about, how it works, and what it requires. They also outline the pitfalls that threaten those who challenge the status quo. If you’re engaging in relevant, business-driven change, keep this information-packed manual on your desk.

Summary

A change-maker offers the hope of positive, transformational improvements. 

Disneyland and Disney World devote big sections of their amusement parks to a positive, transformational view of the future. Their rosy vision foretells social, technological, and organizational progress that can improve life for everyone.

In the real world, change sometimes works and makes life better – and, sometimes, it fails and makes life worse. New advances may disrupt business or the larger society. Change doesn’t reach everyone: While some segments of the world’s population benefit from cutting-edge improvements, large populations live in hardscrabble circumstances that modern advances barely touch.

With volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) problems facing the world, including destructive climate change, transformational improvements are essential. Such advances do not occur magically by themselves. They require visionary change-makers – leaders, designers, developers, and inventors – tons of hard work, and plenty of money.

Change-makers are courageous, optimistic, passionate, and purposeful.

About the Authors

Maria Giudice is the founder and CEO of the design firm Hot Studio. Christopher Ireland is the co-founder and CEO of Cheskin, a Silicon Valley design-research firm.

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