There is a concept I call drift. Drift means that a process has drifted away from the original […]
Are You Sure You Want to Use OKRs?
Psychological Safety in the Classroom
Sorry for the lack of posting! Busy teaching in these crazy times.
The Goal Fits the Team
Beyond the Usual OKR approach Since I first started writing about OKRs seven years ago, I have had […]
Cascading OKRs at Scale
How do you avoid the slow waterfall of goals? A draft of a chapter for Radical Focus 2.0. I […]
Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits
While Design Thinking gets all the attention, it is not the same as (Digital) Product Design. In How I […]
Five Habits of Design Thinking
There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and […]
The Art of the OKR, Redux
The original “Art of the OKR” was written in 2014. I returned to it as I began […]
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 […]
Let the Right One In
Hiring. Everyone says it’s the most important thing you need to get right in your company. And yet […]
Five Habits of Design Thinking
There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and […]
Mind the Product Keynote on Teams
My Mind the Product opening keynote on High Performing teams is up. They do a great write up, […]
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 […]
Comparative Research Done Right
or, Competitive Research the Creative Founder Way For a long time, I’ve been disappointed by competitive research approaches. Most […]
Keynote for WIAD Boston
Miss me while I’m heads down working on my current book (and beginning my teaching practice at Stanford?) […]
The Context Canvas
I’ve been publishing fully formed essays lately, and I thought I’d pause to share a half-baked idea, to […]
Book of the Week: Peak
I first hard of Anders Ericsson in one of the funnest literary nonfiction books I’ve ever read, Moonwalking […]
Three Writing Frameworks to Get You Through Nanowrimo
If you plan to do NaNoWriMo, you’re going to write 1,667 words a day. That’s a lot of […]
Raising Money to Provide a Meaningful Internship for a Student
I’ve never tried anything like this, but I’m using GoFundMe to provide an internship for a student. Please […]
Supercharge Your Team with Effective Feedback
This is part three of a three-part series on high performing teams. I recommend you start with the first two […]
Designing High Performing Teams
This is Part 2 of a three part series on high performing teams. Part one is of Design the […]
Design the Team You Need to Succeed
Part One: Types of Teams Written to sort out my thoughts for my UXDC keynote. If you’d like […]
A Visual Vocabulary for Concept Models
Part One: Rendering Relationships Sign up to be alerted when Pencil Me In, my book on visual thinking, […]
MicroStories for Pitching
If you want to craft a compelling narrative for a book or a presentation, I recommend the format […]
Podcasting
Miss me while I try to wrap up the spring semester? Catch me talking to Mike Rohde about bad […]
Pencil Me In
Working with Pictures was so well received, I decided to do a “real” book. Eight months later (a.k.a. […]
12 BIG IDEAS from Game Design You Should Know
The massive and mind blowing Game Developer’s Conference is here, and in the spirit of all things gamey […]
Top Twenty Most Popular Posts of 2016
Meant to publish this in January, but it got lost in my drafts folder… ah well. Busy year […]
Drawing Books
I usually try to write up the books I read each year. This year I apparently read 250, […]
Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems
In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept […]
Feedback for Teams
This is a write-up of a key learning from my fall class “The Creative Founder,” open to Juniors […]