Monday, June 15, 2015

Accomplish Big Goals With Objectives & Key Results (Christina Wodtke)

Accomplish Big Goals With Objectives & Key Results (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.

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  • 1. Accomplish Big Goals With Objectives & Key Results @cwodtke | cwodtke@eleganthack.com www.eleganthack.com
  • 2. I have worked many great places and done many impossible things. Along the way, I have learned important lessons I’m here to share, including…
  • 3. Don’t get sued
  • 4. Once upon a time there was a start-up.
  • 5. Hanna
  • 6. Jack
  • 7. Restaurant Suppliers
  • 8. Restaurant Suppliers? Hell no Let’s talk to Jim
  • 9. JimLet me tell you a story
  • 10. “I looked out the window at the Ferris wheel of the Great America amusement park revolving in the distance, then I turned back to Gordon and I asked, “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?”
  • 11. Gordon answered without hesitation, “He would get us out of memories.”
  • 12. “Why shouldn’t you and I walk out the door, come back and do it ourselves?” Andy Grove
  • 13. Jim “let’s pretend we’ve already decided”
  • 14. Hire a sales guy? Change the website… Hire a sales team.
  • 15. Restaurant Suppliers! Restaurant Suppliers!
  • 16. But wait, there’s more!