How to Become a Better Manager … By Thinking Like a Designer | MIT Sloan - Design Thinking
A nice little read. Nancy Duarte and Garr Reynolds, two of my favorite authors of presentation and design, provide some insight into how managers can use some of the principals and concepts of design in their daily roles. The main takeaways for what managers can learn from designers are:
Garr:
- Embrace restraint
- Take a risk
- Question everything
- It's not about tools, it's about ideas.
Nancy:
- Hierarchy
- Balance
- Contrast
- Clear space
- Harmony
One of the best quotes from the interview is from Garr, answering the question What are the most common problems a non-designer manager is likely to stumble into when he or she is trying to think like a designer?, "In business we are all scared of being called "too simplistic." People confuse simplicity, which is hard to achieve, with simplistic, which is easy and usually lacks value."
Thoughts...?
Check out the article here: sloanreview.mit.edu or check out the slideshow by Garr for some further points and visuals.
