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September 12, 2019Creative Founder, Creative Practices, Design, Design Thinking, Innovation

Five Habits of Design Thinking

There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and […]

September 10, 2018Business, Creative Founder, Creative Practices, Innovation

Comparative Research Done Right

or, Competitive Research the Creative Founder Way For a long time, I’ve been disappointed by competitive research approaches. Most […]

August 29, 2017Business, Creative Practices, Design, Design Thinking, Innovation

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking

If you like this article, you probably want to sign up to be notified when my new book on […]

August 22, 2017Business, Creative Founder, Innovation, Teaching

The Creative Founder

Class Write Up: Three Years of Learning Creative Founder is in many way the anti-foundations of interaction design.It has […]

May 12, 2017Business, Communication, Creative Practices, Design, Innovation, Pictures

A Visual Vocabulary for Concept Models

Part One: Rendering Relationships Sign up to be alerted when Pencil Me In, my book on visual thinking, […]

August 24, 2016Innovation, Play, Speaking

In Defence of Childish Things: UX Week Talk

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire […]

April 24, 2016Business, Design, Design Thinking, Innovation, Pictures

Product as Hero Storyboard

Long time readers know I am completely obsessed with story architecture, and use it in many things: writing (of […]

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Present Yourself

Present Yourself: Proven Strategies for Authentic and Impactful Public Speaking

By Danielle Barnes and Christina Wodtke

With Contributions By: Margot Bloomstein, Ariba Jahan, Meena Kothandaraman, Paola Mariselli, Eleanor Mason Reinholdt, B. Pagels-Minor, Tomomi Sasaki, Kat Vellos, Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Alla Weinberg, Alexis Wong

Present Yourself is for everyone who has ever fought for an equal shot at the spotlight. Christina Wodtke, Danielle Barnes, and a diverse group of accomplished speakers share stories that will inspire you to communicate with authority. This self-guided, step-by-step framework features practical, actionable advice for authentic and effective public speaking.

Find clarity in why you want to speak and what you need to say. Discover how to harness the power of storytelling. Explore techniques for overcoming anxiety, silencing your inner critics, and minimizing biases that can lead to self-doubt. Learn how to engage with your audience to Present Yourself with clarity and confidence in any situation!

Radical Focus SECOND EDITION

“Christina has taken my favorite book on OKRs and deepened it by answering all the hardest questions people run into putting it to work in the real world. Thank you once again!” – Bruce McCarthy, author and founder of Product Culture

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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.

Struggling to adopt Objectives and Key Results? Radical Focus teaches you everything you need.

Radical Focus has been translated into six languages and sold more than 60,000 copies. 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 50 well-written, clear example OKR sets to inspire and guide you, as well as 22,000 words of all-new material designed to help OKR users in the enterprise create and manage OKRs. If you want to accelerate success and drive rapid organizational learning, you need to read this book.

The Team That Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership

“In this new book, Christina has tackled what I consider the most important problem in the tech industry. Only a small fraction of product teams are working at their potential, and while there are many reasons, this is the responsibility of management, or the lack thereof. People that care enough to provide the level of coaching to help their people become first competent, and then exceptional at their craft.” Marty Cagan, Author of Inspired and Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group

Get your copy now! The Team That Managed Itself

Pencil Me In! The Business Drawing Book for People Who Can’t Draw.

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. Learn more, and purchase!

With contributions from Amelie Sarrazin, Aleksandra Micek, Taylor Reese, Dan Brown, Daniel Cook, Kate Rutter, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Matthew Magain, Sunni Brown, Cristina Negrut, Daryl Meier Fahrni, Marc Bourguignon, Laura Klein, David Gray, Melissa Kim, Mike Rohde, Brian Gulassa, Andrew Reid, Rolf Faste, Raph Koster, Stone Librande, Robin Hunicke, Alicia Loring, Erin Malone, Stephen P. Anderson, Giorgia Lupi, Alex Osterwalder, Noelle Stransky, James Young, and Dan Roam.

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I teach at Stanford, and my students put up their writings and sketch notes there. The game design blog also has assignments, if you want to play along at home

Game Design (cs247G and cs377g)
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Design for Behavior Change ( CS247B)
Design for Understanding: CS 247i Fall 2019 and 2021

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History and Ethics of Design
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Food for Agile Thought #471: Disruptive Innovation, Empowered Product Teams, Decoupling OKRs, Leadership Transitions – Royal Consultants, A Royal Property Consultants LLC Business on Decoupling OKRs: It’s Time to Let Go
Week notes: 18 – 24 November 2024 | Neil Williams on Getting Started with Outcome Thinking
Pre-Work for Setting OKRs adrianhoward on June 2, 2024 at 02:58 Hacker News: Front Page - Bharat Courses on Pre-Work for Setting OKRs
Food for Agile Thought #442: The Value-Add Activities Metric, The Adjacency Matrix Post-PMF, Destroying Trust, EBM Guide 2024 – Royal Consultants, A Royal Property Consultants LLC Business on Using Ikigai with Personal OKRs
Week notes: 29 April – 5 May 2024 | Neil Williams on Using Temporal Landmarks for Effective OKRs Adoption

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