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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#2B65EC">Appendix I</span></h2>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">Bonus Articles</h1>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#2B65EC">Additional resources to become a business savvy and street smart designer</span></h4>
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Now that you've become good at business, here's a bunch more writing I've done over the years to continue raising your influence, and position design to win.

<h4>Get good at leading design orgs…</h4>
- [The CDO School Design Leadership Playbook](https://thecdo.school/articles/the-cdo-school-leadership-playbook/)
-  [You're now in charge. What's the plan?](https://thecdo.school/articles/youre-now-in-charge-whats-the-plan/)
- [5 things Design VPs are paid to do differently than a Director or Manager](https://thecdo.school/articles/5-things-design-vps-are-paid-to-do-differently-than-a-director-or-manager/)

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<h4>Get good at strategy…</h4>
- [Four Fits to make Design crucial at your company](https://thecdo.school/articles/four-fits-to-make-design-crucial-at-your-company/)
- [Four Fits: Finding Business Model - Design practice fit](https://thecdo.school/articles/finding-business-model-design-practice-fit/)
- [Four Fits: Finding Design Practice - Partnerships Fit](https://thecdo.school/articles/finding-design-practice-partnerships-fit/)
- [Four Fits: Finding Partnership - Positioning Fit ](https://thecdo.school/articles/finding-partnership-positioning-fit/)
- [Track and adapt how design creates, delivers, and captures for the rest of the company](https://thecdo.school/articles/track-how-design-creates-delivers-and-captures-for-the-rest-of-the-company/)
- [Quickly evaluate if the conditions are ripe for change with Force Field Analysis](https://thecdo.school/articles/quickly-evaluate-if-the-conditions-are-ripe-for-change-with-force-field-analysis/)
- [Selling a Design System before asking for buy-in](https://thecdo.school/articles/selling-a-design-system-before-asking-for-buy-in/)


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<h4>Get good at communicating effectively…</h4>
- [Create strong business cases with The Situation, Complication, Resolution (SCR) framework](https://thecdo.school/articles/create-stronger-business-cases-with-the-situation-complication-resolution-scr-framework/)
- [SWOT and SOAR; your stakeholders' favorite way to evaluate risk](https://thecdo.school/articles/swot-and-soar-your-stakeholders-favorite-way-to-evaluate-risk/)
- [Effectively communicate the value of Design with a scorecard - what I learned at Apple](https://thecdo.school/articles/effectively-communicate-the-value-of-design-with-a-scorecard-what-i-learned-at-apple/)

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<h4>Get good at politics…</h4>
- [5 steps to find stakeholders and key collaborators who will champion your ideas](https://thecdo.school/articles/5-steps-to-find-stakeholders-and-key-collaborators-who-will-champion-your-ideas/)
- [Active listening is a powerful way to grow your influence–and it's learnable](https://thecdo.school/articles/active-listening-is-learnable/)
- [The Importance of Mapping Power Dynamics](https://thecdo.school/articles/mapping-power-dynamics/)

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<h4>Get good at ROI stuff…</h4>
- [The ultimate list of Design and DesignOps metrics](https://thecdo.school/articles/our-ultimate-list-of-metrics-for-design-leaders/)
- [The Best Way to See How Everyday Design Work Connects to Business is to Make a Map](https://thecdo.school/articles/the-best-way-to-see-how-everyday-design-work-connects-to-business-is-to-make-a-map/)
- [Measuring Design is an act of bravery](https://thecdo.school/articles/measuring-is-an-act-of-bravery/)
- [Four categories of product quality (desirability) health](https://thecdo.school/articles/the-four-categories-of-product-quality-and-design-health/)
- [Pragmatic lessons to measure design and track metrics](https://thecdo.school/articles/pragmatic-lessons-to-measure-design-and-track-metrics/) 
- [Why Designers might actually like data: A case for gaining statistical literacy (video)](https://thecdo.school/articles/a-case-for-gaining-statistical-literacy/)