by juliediamond | Mar 26, 2016 | Activism, Fear, Feminism, Heroes, Home Page Blog, Roles, Sexism
This post is the story I told at this month’s Free Speech event at Wildfang. When Emma McIlroy, Wildfang CEO, asked me to be a part of this event, she said this first Free Speech event was on the topic, The F-Word, feminism. But, she quickly added, I could talk about...
by juliediamond | Nov 14, 2014 | Change, Heroes, Home Page Blog, Leader development, Leadership, Learning, Power, Roles
I was talking my client, Larry, the other day, who was struggling with how to communicate with his manager. No matter how hard he tried, he always felt that he and his boss were out of step. And according to Larry, it was because of his boss’ abrupt style. In the next...
by juliediamond | Jun 22, 2014 | Activism, Heroes, Home Page Blog, Leader development, Leadership, Learning
This is why it’s dangerous to make anyone seem larger than life. Because a young person coming up sees this larger than life figure, this outrageously gigantic personality and has to say I could never be that, I can never do that, when the truth is, those men, and...
by juliediamond | Apr 30, 2014 | Heroes, Home Page Blog, Leadership, Power, Racism, Relationship
I’ve been preoccupied these past few days with the Donald Sterling scandal – the Los Angeles Clippers owner’s racist comments and subsequent lifetime ban from the NBA. It’s a paradoxical lesson in a) how much bigotry and racism exists, and b) how much our...
by juliediamond | Apr 22, 2014 | Heroes, Home Page Blog, Leader development, Leadership, Roles
Remember the movie, Big? Tom Hanks plays a twelve year old boy who wishes he were big at a wish granting game in an arcade, only to wake up the next morning in the body of a 30 year old. He’s still a twelve year old, but living in an adult body. It makes for great...
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