I learned this exercise from Andre Plaut and have used it, tweaked it, and loved it. I do […]
Norms Exercise
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 […]
Book of the Week: Thanks for the Feedback
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well Very few people are good at […]
Book of the Week: The Culture Map
I thought I might try a new series. I read a lot of books, between pleasure and teaching, […]
Beyond OKRs: The Formula for High Performing Teams
Every wonder if there was a better way to form and manage teams? Before I disappeared for the […]
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 […]
Pencil Me In
Working with Pictures was so well received, I decided to do a “real” book. Eight months later (a.k.a. […]
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 […]
Story Secrets for Understanding and Communicating
My Convey UX presentation is up! Live drawing, improv and heaps of storytelling! Learn how to incorporate story […]
Alphabets and Logographs
When I first got into Visual Thinking, I came across a core concept that no one agreed on: […]
One Big Idea
I was enjoying a sazerac with a old friend of mine at a local watering hole. And by […]
Block Your Talk
This one of a series of essays on speaking. Find more here. You’ve written a great talk, you’ve […]
Presenting is Performance
This one of a series of essays on speaking. Find more here. When the Game Developer’s Conference invited […]
Personal OKRs, Three Years Later
Don’t know anything about OKRs? Read The Art of the OKR first, and/or Personal OKRs. Also, personal OKRs are […]
For TinyLIpsum, with Love and Stories
I’ve been teaching storytelling for a couple of years now, and have discovered there is a particular shape that […]
How to Make a Concept Model
Originally published in Boxes and Arrows May 6th, 2014. I realized recently I never published this here, on my […]
The Three Jobs of Product Management
No matter how hard and long you work, there are only 24 hours in a day. If you […]
GUEST POST: A Map from Goals, Around Assumptions, Through Tasks, Towards Results
As I prepare for the fall semester, John has kindly agreed to a guest post, sharing some of […]
One Objective to Rule them All
@cwodtke Would you recommend that a company has only one top level objective? — Lukas Dryja (@nizm) August […]
A Joy Project
Last spring, a class I was going to teach got cancelled because of a scheduling mixup. I got […]
Why Key Results Need to Be Results
If you know nothing about OKRs, please start here: Art of the OKR. Or buy my book, Radical Focus. […]
Beyond the Slide
It’s 2006, and I’m sitting in the office of my pal Rasmi’s company, Uzanto. We’ve been chatting about […]
In Praise of Q&A
At a recent conference, I ran into the organizer at the first coffee break of the morning. She […]
NEW: Report on OKRs from O’Reilly
Introduction to OKRs is free on the O’Reilly site. If you’ve read my book and blog, much will […]