<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Until January 9th the eBook is available to subscribers, reviewers and friends for $1.99, the lowest price Amazon would let me set. n Click Here n And now some expressed and much deserved gratitude: n n Acknowledgements: Traveling the Consulting Road n In my life, I have had lots of help. I […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The Day After Christmas n When I was growing up in 1950s New England, the day after Christmas was a recovery day. Kids played with toys that werenu2019t broken yet. If there was snow, boys went outside for sledding, and snowfort snowball fights. If it was cold and not much recent snow […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u00a0House of Cards n We send holiday cards. My list includes people Iu2019m only in contact with once a year so I usually include a little handwritten note with some news. Not always; I sometimes run out of steam. So Iu2019ve learned to start at the u201cAu2019s one year and the u2018Zu2019s […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Kid stuff n Iu2019ve been reading Aesopu2019s Fables. Most of us read some of Aesopu2019s stories as children: the conceited hare so impressed with his own speed that he took many diversions and even a nap and so lost the race to the slow but steady tortoise. This left us with a […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Consulting Wisdom from Unusual Places n Is Consulting Wisdom an Oxymoron? n Hey Newbie, Listen up! n So You Want to be a Consultant? n Traveling the Consulting Road. n Almost six years ago I retired from consulting after thirty-seven years and I hatched a plan. I would write -first on LinkedIn, […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A Tale of Two Towns n To the hawk the two lands were not far. A few hours of hard flight perhaps, but with many updrafts for circling and trees on even the tallest ridges if the winds were not right and a rest was required, it could be pleasant. It was […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A Rant n Iu2019m not really a rant-kinda-guy, no really, Iu2019m not. . . n Whined the wishy-wash writer-wrestling with what the wrecked-world hath wrought . . . n Resistance is futile . . .a least, . . . thatu2019s what u201ctheyu201d say . . . n So ranters gonna rant, rant, […]

I wrote a rant to post this week. Then Dennis reposted a BizCat article I wrote six months ago where I was genuinely asking what we might start doing  about the “Problems of the World.” It was written by my less-cynical self, who grabbed my grumpy-old-man self-by the proverbial lapels, shook me,  and said “Dude, […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The times they are a-changinu2019 n My father and mother were born in 1904 and 1908 respectively. In 1988 I interviewed them with a cassette recorder and I just found the tape. I had to scramble to find an old Walkman to listen to it. It was strange to hear their voices […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" First independent project interviews n u201cI told u2019im u2018You know, Bob, youu2019re not the only one with an engineering degree!u2019 u2018Nu2019 thenu00a0 he said, u2018Oh, thatu2019s right, Paulee, I forgot, you got a diploma from Steveu2019s college in New Jersey!u2019 Everybody laughed ou2019course, but I never forgot that. I mean, Stevens Tech […]