Episode 176: Leadership for Designers with Ryan Rumsey

How can designers take business leadership roles? What skills can make them more relevant in the entire business system? Our guest today is Ryan Rumsey, the founder of Second Wave Dive and the author of Business Thinking for Designers. You’ll learn about the various types of leadership, as well as the tools and strategies designers can use at the decision-making table.

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Show Notes

• Business Thinking for Designers — Ryan’s book
• Transformational leadership — a concept of leadership suggested by Ryan
• Design sprints, retrospectives — the designer “ceremonies”
• Analytical storytelling — the alternative to traditional narrative storytelling
• Barbara Minto — the founder of the SCQA framework and Pyramid Principle
• Episode 70: Articulating Design Decisions with Tom Greever
• Full range leadership — a general leadership model that was developed in the 90s
• Transactional leadership — Ryan refers to this type of leadership as more authoritarian
• OKRs, KPIs — both great and necessary according to Ryan, but lack any relation between them and can prove to be a struggle within the organization.
• Ryan Rumsey — Ryan’s personal website
• Second Wave Dive — Ryan’s company
• Use coupon code UIBREAKFAST to get $200 off Ryan’s upcoming course, Business Thinking Intensive

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