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19 2024 September
The Power of Your Voice
Think about your last company town hall or Q&A. Who spoke? Did it feel staged or natural? Were the people speaking persuasive and engaging, or...
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Fractional Executives: A Force Multiplier for Startups and a Potential Career Path
Note from Deb: From time to time, I get guest writers to share their perspectives on topics I am less familiar with. My friend, Ha,...
Read More29 2024 August
Hitting Reset
Photo by Erwan Hesry on Unsplash David and I have been in an ongoing tussle. We bought a 10-seater dining table back in 2016, when...
Read More23 2024 August
The Power in Belonging
On November 18th, 1978, in a remote compound in the jungles of Guyana, over 900 men, women, and children died after drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid under...
Read More13 2024 August
The Unexpected Path
I first met Abby on a campus bus when we were teens. She was a freshman at Harvard, and I was there visiting my then-boyfriend...
Read More08 2024 August
The Hidden Message You’re Communicating
Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash During the 1992 election, a voter asked sitting president George H.W. Bush about how the national debt impacted him...
Read More02 2024 August
Unlearning the Lessons That No Longer Serve Us
I was sitting at the dinner table cutting restaurant napkins in half, and my husband came by to ask me what I was doing. When...
Read More25 2024 July
How to Open Communication
I took a couple weeks off from writing—one to go on vacation with my family, and then another to recuperate from the Covid everyone got...
Read More05 2024 July
Removing Asymmetry of Information
Photo by Caleb George on Unsplash I started my time at Ancestry with a listening tour and state of the union, where I spoke to...
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