Dan Waldschmidt
Dan Waldschmidt
Speaker, author, strategist, Dan Waldschmidt is a conversation changer. Dan and his team help people arrive at business-changing breakthrough ideas by moving past outdated conventional wisdom, social peer pressure, and the selfish behaviors that stop them from being high performers. The Wall Street Journal calls his blog, Edge of Explosion, one of the Top 7 blogs sales blogs anywhere on the internet and hundreds of his articles on unconventional sales tactics have been published.
Fear is Making You a Loser.
You were born a winner. And life taught you how to be a loser. Ironic isn’t it? You beat the odds. From conception...
Edgy Technology: Threadsy Combines the Conversation.
Do you have 37 ways for people to get a a hold of you? Work email. Personal email. Legacy AOL email. Unused Yahoo email...
Edgy Conversations: Being a Knowledge Snob Isn’t Cool.
Sometimes on the weekends I take my sons down to the park to play and I sit on the bench and watch as they...
Feeling Lost When You Know The Way.
Have you ever looked around and say, “Where am I?” You feel lost. And sad. And thoroughly confused. Your head knows the direction. ...
Edgy Conversations: Grow up. Stop Pouting. Care.
The title is really all I wanted to say. (I feel the need to write the rest of this article so you take the idea...
Negotiation. Why You Want Mutual Satisfaction.
So let’s talk shop… There is no such thing as a “one sided” deal. Both sides get what they want or a deal doesn’t happen.…
Edgy Technology: Video Live Streaming
At 10:40, Andrea will introduce me and ten minutes later (or a smidge shorter than that) I go live… I am the keynote speaker at...
Edgy Conversations: Your Emails Make People Hate You.
How believable is this email? Not the one I am writing…. the one pictured above. The one offering me 15.5 million dollars. That one. Here’s...
Edgy Technology: Dooid makes you drool.
Sometimes you just need to get your side of the story out there… You want to be memorable. Great idea, right?. The reality is that…
Edgy Conversations: Stop doing stupid stuff just because your boss suggests it
A senior sales executive friend reached out me a few weeks ago asking for help transitioning between different senior sales positions. He was...
Fear, Failure & What You Want For You
We let fear control too much of our lives. And the result is unnecessary failure. We fail because we fear. It’s just...
Comparing our Way to Horrible Conclusions
We use comparisons all the time to measure how successful we are. It’s part of our primal instinct. To feel good about our place...
Karma: 5 Ways to Change your Future.
What you do matters. Everything. The big stuff. The little stuff. Even the annoying stuff. It all matters and its...
It’s transformation; not transaction.
Transformation. It’s not what you say. It’s not even what you do. It’s how you leave them feeling when it’s all over. We, as...
Success Starts With You Being Different
You can’t stand out when you look like everyone else. You can’t inspire and challenge others when you are just as fearful as them to...
The will to win: C’est pour toi, Maman
For 24 years, Joannie had trained to be in this position. She entered the Olympics, with 12 gold medals in the last 12 consecutive...
4 Reasons You Can’t Shortcut Your Way to Success
There is no shortcut to success. Unlike every episode with Indiana Jones, there is no Holy Grail of aspirational whymsy whereby you plot a few...
Seth Godin Inspires Indispensable Edginess.
Is what you doing right now something the world can’t live without? Are you the difference between success and failure? Are you...