Deirdre's popular blog on all things leadership and communication is the perfect example of her personal brand of "mild audacity". Because she gets to say what other won't, her messages get to the core of the real issues behind the challenges we face, the frustrations we feel, and the solutions to making it all better.
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Today I invite you on a journey, one that will eventually lead to one of my most dramatic confrontations in recent history. In fact, it’s been just about a year since I brought you the tale of my last such incident in my blog post lessons learned from a major meltdown Today’s has a different [...]
If I ever had a doubt that life has a funny sense of humor, I sure remembered it last week. It happened on the day I flew into Colorado to give a presentation on networking – specifically, on how to talk to anybody at anytime. It was the very same day that a few folks decided [...]
I’m about to allow myself a moment of vulnerability with you. Brace yourself. There’s a certain day about once each month that I dread more than any other day. It’s the day I go into my accounting software and take a good, hard look at the numbers. I look at what I brought in. I [...]
Conversations drive our lives. They mean everything. Yet we all face the temptation to do something every day – sometimes several times each day - to mess them up. I dare you to tell me the following hasn’t happened to you. You’re in the midst of a conversation and someone else is speaking and – BAM! [...]
A few weeks ago I met up with a colleague in a hotel lobby. We were attending a conference there and met to discuss a project before the day’s festivities began. Things were going fine at first…until they got heated. I’m still not quite sure what happened, but all of a sudden his voice rose [...]
Last week found me plugging away in one of my satellite offices. Starbucks. I admit it. It’s a favorite place of mine. After all, who doesn’t like a little Starbucks fix now and then? I was working on a piece on leadership, thinking through the best leaders I know. The customers streamed in steadily, happily chatting [...]
