The Story of Leading Experience
Everyone tells you in order to lead effectively, you have to be able to be a story. To that end,...
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...
Design All the Things!
Christina Wodtke was hosted by UX Lausanne 2016. —- Christina has been doing an amazing work, making the bridge between...
Radical Focus and Empowered Teams
During this webinar we have explored how to use OKRs and the importance of having empowered teams, how OKRs is...
How to Avoid Team Fracture
Christina Wodtke, Instructor at Stanford, on How to Avoid Team Fracture at the 2019 Product Leader Summit.
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...
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.