#3 Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams

Contact Christina:

• Her website
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Christina's books:

• The Team That Managed Itself (consider leaving a review here if you enjoy it)
• Radical Focus
• Pencil Me In

People, articles, resources mentioned:

• Reboot your team
• Designing the team you need
• The dreaded weekly status email
• Rich Mironov lessons on people and systems
  • ENLIVEN ep with Rich Mironov on creating a thriving product org
• Nicky Case - parable of the polygons on diverse neighborhoods
• "I drink your milkshake"
• Stanford GSB's most popular class: Interpersonal Dynamics
• Google's findings on psychological safety
• "The Executioner's Tale" — Radical Focus book MVP
• BOOKS
  • The Wisdom of Teams
  • The Culture Map - Erin Meyer
  • Thanks for the Feedback
  • The Fearless Organization
  • A Theory of Everything (Integral Theory) - Ken Wilber
  • Flourish - Martin Seligman
  • The Inner Game of Tennis & The Inner Game of Stress
  • Turn the Ship Around
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• QUOTES
  • "I am sneakily trying to bring more humanity to it"
  • "There's no such thing as 'those people,' there's just people."
  • " 'I'm not in charge' is just an excuse, an excuse for being afraid...somebody's got to go first"

SHOW NOTES

Coming to California [0:03:23]
Christina's start in tech [0:06:39]
How did Christina get here? [0:07:36]
How do older & younger students affect each other in Christina's classes? [0:11:11]
What is Christina learning from her students lately? [0:12:41]
Christina's "unfortunate" personal quality [0:16:48]
Managing and teaching — do you need answers? [0:18:58]
What had Christina write THIS book? [0:20:16]
Treating your life like a startup & finding Product-Market Fit in your life [0:20:37]
How to validate a book idea, lean startup style [0:21:15]
Christina's big realization - what made OKRs work? [0:24:03]
The 3 things teams actually need [0:24:41]
What types of teams are there? [0:26:37]
Moving from a workgroup to a team [0:28:05]
What makes a team into a learning team? [0:28:49]
What makes a mindful, autonomous team? [0:30:16]
Radical Focus vs OKRs [0:32:56]
Trust & psychological safety [0:33:25]
The kinds of trust [0:34:25]
How trust is built differently across cultures [0:36:17]
In America, do we act like everyone is a robot? [0:37:11]
How can I chip away at cultural constructs? [0:38:50]
When is each type of team/group the right choice? [0:40:50]
What does it take to be a mindful team? [0:45:02]
How should people approach implementing these ideas? Giving feedback? [0:49:29]
Christina's "GASP" feedback framework [0:50:31]
Integral theory: I-We-It [0:57:51]
How long is this going to take? [0:59:50]
Where to start turning around a culture: compensation [1:02:20]
How does this team-level model integrate with the surruonding company environment? [1:05:48]
Can you make a healthy team in a dysfunctional company? [1:06:38]
Which team to start with [1:09:39]
Team health red flags to look out for [1:13:09]
GASP vs GROW? [1:16:15]
Your job as a leader [1:19:58]
The 9X process [1:22:30]
Goals, roles, and norms — and what people miss [1:23:41]
Isn't this too many meetings? [1:27:07]
How to create a lightweight meeting structure [1:29:28]
The thing that really makes the difference in goals [1:31:51]
Isn't this stuff all too "touchy feely"? [1:38:12]
Engineers are humans too [1:40:32]
The reality of work: nobody is in charge [1:41:59]
How to make a mindful team happen [1:42:47]
What impact does Christina want this book to have? [1:44:00]

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