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...
How to Influence Without Authority
Product design expert Christina Wodtke shared insights and advices from her new upcoming book on how to influence without authority...
In Defense of Childish Things
An established thought leader in Silicon Valley, Christina is a “curious human” with a serious resume. Her past work includes...
The Executioner’s Tale
An established thought leader in Silicon Valley, Christina is a “curious human” with a serious resume. Her past work includes...
From the half-bakery: Temporal Landmarks
I am about to start a new habit. I’ve starting writing more and more formal essays, and I want to...
Comparative Research Done Right
Kate Rutter Leads a Comparator Research Discussion or, Competitive Research the Creative Founder Way For a long time, I’ve been disappointed...
Reboot Your Team
An established thought leader in Silicon Valley, Christina is a “curious human” with a serious resume. Her past work includes...
Using OKRs to Increase Organizational Learning
This is a draft chapter from the second edition of Radical Focus. It’s coming… eventually. Hopefully soonish. Leave your wishlist...
Working the Weekly 1:1
A better approach for the most important meeting of the week There are a lot of work “rituals” that suck so...
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.