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My book

Liftoff! Practical Design Leadership — Rosenfeld Media (2020).

Liftoff!

I co-authored Liftoff! Practical Design Leadership with Russ Unger (Rosenfeld Media, 2020).

From the back cover:

Liftoff! is your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader. Its experience-driven approach—written by designers for designers—will help you hire and scale teams, develop careers, learn why diversity matters to your business, and solidify design’s role in your organization. Liftoff! will elevate your skills to lead your team and company to new heights.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kim Goodwin

Chapter 1: Surprise! You’re in Charge of People Now

Chapter 2: Designing Diversity and Inclusion in Your Teams

Chapter 3: Designing Your Hiring Process

Chapter 4: Performance Profiles and Interview Guides

Chapter 5: Screening Designers

Chapter 6: Interviewing Potential Team Members

Chapter 7: Offers, Negotiations, and Onboarding

Chapter 8: Unifying the Team Culture with Charters

Chapter 9: Designing the One-on-Ones

Chapter 10: Leading Continuous Critique

Chapter 11: Presenting Work

Chapter 12: Saying No

Chapter 13: Developing Designers

Chapter 14: Scaling Design

Chapter 15: Designing Influence

Chapter 16: Escape Velocity

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