The “How” Question: Building Competitive Advantage with Seven Powers
Once you know who you’re serving, where you’ll grow, and what value you provide, it’s time to address one of...
Wodtke is an established thought leader with a wealth of experience in the intersection of business, design, management and entrepreneurship. She is an insightful author, connecting real world challenges to new ways of thinking through her books and articles.
Her new edition of Radical Focus uses the power of story to bring fresh insight to managing by objectives and key results (OKR), and is a #1 Amazon category bestseller
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The award-winning author of The Team That Managed Itself and Pencil Me In returns with a new and expanded edition of her landmark book on OKRs.
If you’ve ever wanted to know how to use OKRs, or why yours might not be working, Radical Focus teaches you everything you need to achieve your goals. The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley’s hottest companies to teach practical insights on OKRs in the form of a fable. Now, the second edition of her OKR manifesto proves that Wodtke’s business strategies are essential in a world where focus seems to be a more and more unreachable goal. The updated version includes 22,000 words of all-new material designed to help OKR users in larger companies create, grade, and manage OKRs in ways that accelerate success and drive rapid organizational learning.
Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke’s powerful system for attaining your most important goals with radical focus.
weaving stories into your presentation
specific tools to engage your audience, and
creating your own rituals to prepare for (and celebrate!) speaking over the long term.
No longer do any of us have to dread and put off public speaking. Now, just like the 11 brilliant speakers featured in the book, you can harness the power of your authentic voice, and be heard.
An Actionable Leadership Book in the Form of a Fable
In The Team That Managed Itself, Christina Wodtke teaches leaders how to build and lead high-performing teams based on her long career in the trenches in Silicon Valley. Her book is engaging, actionable–and built around a story you’ll want to read. After her boss leaves suddenly, Allie finds herself responsible for the casual gaming titan Quiltworld and the dozens of people working on the highly dysfunctional team. Can Allie learn to competently hire, fire, and give feedback in time to make the product’s big sales goals? Or will the team, the buggy code, and the beloved game fall apart while Allie’s job goes up in smoke?
Learn to lead a team along with Allie as she tackles one challenge after another while the clock ticks down.
Want to get better in business? Learn how to draw.
There’s no faster, cheaper prototype in the world than a sketch on a sheet of paper. What’s unclear in words is suddenly crystal clear in a sketch, and you—and your team—can tackle problems in entirely new ways. Play around with ideas. Document your process. Think on paper. Visual thinking brings a whole new power to work.
Think you can’t draw? Don’t worry! The simplest sketches are the most effective at communication and problem solving, so you can begin drawing in less time than your average coffee break. Pictures and visual communication harken back to the stone age for good reason–they’re natural, they’re quick, and they work. And they’ll work for you.
If you’re looking for the next tool to help you solve your hardest (and most interesting) challenges at work, try a paper and pencil. This book teaches you how to use them well–and have a bit of fun along the way.
This book introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can be found, designing website interaction so that it’s pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. This book helps designers, project managers, programmers, and other information architecture practitioners avoid costly mistakes by teaching the skills of information architecture swiftly and clearly.
This special Kindle edition is a vital sampler of new thinking on how to design for, and see, the digital age. Wodtke’s essays range from career advice to insights on the future of the internet.
Why is homogenization of the internet a bad thing?
What are practices you can put if place to help you to design better digital “things”?
How and where to find a job?
Why are compassion and pragmatism important, and how can you get yourself some?
Wodtke offers didacticism, irreverence, humor, and humanity in this collection of essays on how to make the online world a better place.
(Essays previously published on Wodtke’s eleganthack.com and other online sites, as well as the eponomous 101 Essays on Design)
From the forward: “So why buy this book? Maybe you’d like all the essays in one place, preferably on your Kindle. Or maybe you’d like to buy it in order to say thanks for all my writing. I’d be good with that.” — Christina Wodtke”
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