64: Why a good craftsperson isn't always a good manager with designer turned strategist Izzi Hays

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We’ve masqueraded as a bellboy and snuck into the G-Suite to catch freak in the (Google) Sheets and designer turned creative strategist, Izzi Hays, this week.

An awfully loud introvert, Izzi Rascal is bonkers for a tricky problem and is currently breaking industry moulds and bolstering their strategy chops at MultiAdaptor.

They chinwag to us on their accidental shift from design to strategy, empathy, bullsh*t job titles, why a good craftsperson isn’t always a good manager, research in the wild, what living in 10 countries has taught them, building diverse teams, pancakes, what they’d be doing in a world without brands and tonnes more.
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Izzi’s book recommendations are:

The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

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