<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The LinkedIn Wisdom Elders n Iu2019m connected on LinkedIn to several men about my age or a little older who write posts like I do. Some also have weekly newsletters on LinkedIn where they publish slightly longer pieces, similar to what to these pieces on Wisdom from Unusual Places. I think what […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" ‘u201cBe Patient?u201d n The first time I met Will, I remember thinking, u201cNow here is a guy who looks like a CEO.u201d Will was straight from Central Casting. He was a little older than I was at the time, late forties maybe. He was taller than me, maybe six-one and trim and […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Consultants donu2019t do anything n In the video, a man dressed in athletic shorts stands on a train platform. He puts chalk on his hands and limbers up. As a train approaches the station, he positions himself next to the train track reaching out to slow the train to a stop. As […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The joke is on me n There is a joke I first heard in my teenage years. Like a lot of jokes it is hard to make work in written form. n The jokester asks: u201dWhatu2019s the secret of good comedy?u201d n Then as the person starts to speak u201cWell I thinku2026,u201d […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u201cMurder at the End of the Worldu201d n We are watching this TV program. Donu2019t panic. No spoiler alerts because we arenu2019t that far into it yet. Itu2019s a murder mystery and a near timeline science fiction show. It was produced by FX but we are streaming it on Hulu so we […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" I bought this book a year ago, scanned it, and put it aside. I was too wrapped up in finishingu00a0 and self-publishing my own book and my u201ctoo cool for the peopleu201d cynicism kicked in every time, I picked it up. n I am not really the target market for this book. […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Poor Oedipus n Born in Thebes, Oedipus was left to die on a mountaintop because a seer told Laius and Jocasta, his parents, that this infant was a threat to the throne. In real life he would have just died of exposure, another unfortunate unwanted child statistic, but in Greek mythology, a […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" In 1991 I wrote about how I was continually amazed at the ubiquity of consulting and how I found it in the most unexpected situations. n My hair cutter then was an unusual man, a dark-skinned Mediterranean, a guyu2019s guy, a salesman, a dealmaker, quick with a joke or a story. I […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u201cYou think weird!u201d n Fred, my client, was being complimentary. He was explaining why he liked having me around. u201cNo really, I mean it. You see third and fourth level consequences that I would never think about. You understand multiple connections and five ways to solve a problem, when Iu2019m lucky to […]

Calendar Schmalendar! Today is January 1st. Actually I am writing this over three days starting on December 30th and it won’t be posted on this site until 4:00 a.m. on January 2nd and goodness knows when you are reading it – assuming anyone is actually reading it. There is this day called New Year’s, on […]