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Expert: Christina Wodtke

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Christina Wodtke knows that dreams don’t happen without a plan and learning. She doesn’t just teach about Objectives and Key Results, she used them to change her own life. When work stress compromised her health and shadowed her ambition, OKRs gave Christina the tools to design and realize a life worth living.

Christina loves a challenge. She asks questions like how can we build together? How can we create accountability and inspire outlandish dreams? OKRs are her answer.

Christina has helped grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, and the New York Times. She’s the author of the bestselling book Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web and is working on a new book about OKRs. She speaks worldwide about the human experience in information spaces and writes at eleganthack.com.

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Christina Wodtke

Radical Focus

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Christina Wodtke

From Rosenfeld Media's Product Management + User Experience Virtual Conference.

Getting a team to work together and achieve a goal can be as much about picking the goal as picking the team. Too many companies fail at making big changes or tackling big problems because they fail to focus, prioritize, and motivate all members of the team.

In this talk, Christina Wodtke, author of the forthcoming Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, will teach you how to tackle and realize big goals in a methodical way using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You’ll learn the beauty of a good fail and how regular check-ins can keep you on track to success. Christina has devoted her career to tackling monumental tasks. She’s helped grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, and the New York Times. Nowadays she works with startups and entrepreneurs, sharing her strategies for success and inspiring them to pursue big goals and outlandish dreams.

Business Strategy Strategy Product Management
February 3, 2016
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Christina Wodtke

Accomplish Big Goals With Objectives & Key Results

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Christina Wodtke

Christina Wodtke has devoted her career to tackling monumental tasks. She’s helped grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, and the New York Times. Nowadays she works with startups and entrepreneurs, sharing her strategies for success and inspiring them to pursue big goals and outlandish dreams.

Christina knows how to inspire diverse teams to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, ultra-challenging goal. Hint: It’s not about to-do lists and accountability charts. How do you get your team to commit to bold goals? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and disappointments? And is failure ever a viable option?

Christina Wodtke will demonstrate how she uses objectives and key results to help teams tackle and realize big goals in a methodical way, leaving nothing to chance. You’ll learn the beauty of a good fail and how regular check-ins can keep you on track to success.

Measurement Team Management Project Management
December 4, 2014