Are You Sure You Want to Use OKRs?
There is a concept I call drift. Drift means that a process has drifted away from the original framing. It...
Psychological Safety in the Classroom
Sorry for the lack of posting! Busy teaching in these crazy times. </p) Speaking of, I just gave this talk...
The Goal Fits the Team
Beyond the Usual OKR approach Since I first started writing about OKRs seven years ago, I have had a lot...
Cascading OKRs at Scale
How do you avoid the slow waterfall of goals? A draft of a chapter for Radical Focus 2.0. I write about...
Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits
While Design Thinking gets all the attention, it is not the same as (Digital) Product Design. In How I Stopped Worrying...
Five Habits of Design Thinking
There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and Design Thinking....
The Art of the OKR, Redux
The original “Art of the OKR” was written in 2014. I returned to it as I began to revise...
Let the Wrong One Go
Clear Feedback and Compassionate Firing The biggest problem with firing is we’re afraid to do it. If you’ve watched Up...
Let the Right One In
Hiring. Everyone says it’s the most important thing you need to get right in your company. And yet it’s the...
Mind the Product Keynote on Teams
My Mind the Product opening keynote on High Performing teams is up. They do a great write up, if watching...
Christina Wodtke
Christina trains companies to move from insight to execution as principal of her firm, Wodtke Consulting, and teaches the next generation of entrepreneurs at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Education.
Christina has led redesigns and initial product offerings for such companies as LinkedIn, Myspace, Zynga, Yahoo!, Hot Studio, and eGreetings. She has founded two consulting startups, a product startup, and Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of design; and she co‐founded the Information Architecture Institute. She’s the author of 101 Theses on Design, Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web and her new book about OKRs, Radical Focus.
Currently she teaches at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Education. She speaks everywhere from conferences to universities to boardrooms, and opines across the internet, but most often on eleganthack.com.