<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The Ancient Late Adopter speaks n Let us be clear, I am old. I started as a consultant in 1980; I retired as a consultant five years ago. Most of what I write about consulting comes from those thirty-seven years. I look back over my career and try to extract lessons from […]
Acme Grand Opening It was a sunny spring Saturday and I was on a roll. When I worked, Saturdays were all about errands and it was only ten-fifteen and, man, I was checking things off the old index card to-do list to beat the band. I’d dropped and picked up shirts and taken shoes off […]
Improvement and Innovation Over my thirty-seven years as a change consultant, I worked on a lot of improvement and innovation projects. These are similar but different methodologies. The people who work on these methodologies tend to focus on the differences. Improvement often makes an existing product or process better, whereas innovation tends to invent new […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A fun and fascinating read on early psychedelic research n u201cMy book about Tim is up on Amazon. I hope youu2019ll read it and if you like it tell some other people about it. He was an important person in my life and it was an important time. Psychedelics took on a […]
A conversation It was a story I heard more than once. Different people told the story often making a slightly different point. Some told it to make the Great Gatsby point, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Some told the story as real success advice –“listen […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" n u201cOK, Alan. If youu2019re interested in us, Iu2019d be interested in you. Iu2019ll need to talk to Sam, my partner. He may want to meet you.u201d n n I had been a booking agent selling engagements for celebrity speakers on college campuses for six years. I was twenty-six years old.u00a0 I […]
Two roads diverged . . . Perhaps you read “The Road Not Taken” in school. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I — I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference.” My English teacher told me this was about Robert Frost’s choice to become a poet, […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Eeeyou! n That is how many people react to bugs. Theyu2019re disgusting, disease-spreading, creepy-crawly creatures. Perhaps the feeling is mutual; there is little reliable data about how insects react to humans. They may be conflicted; we are both food source and predator to them. n Insects may be completely indifferent to humans. […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u201cOh, Man! I canu2019t believe I did that.u201d n Iu2019m reviewing my life (so far). I suppose that might be expected for someone my age. After all, looking back is easier than looking forward, reflecting is easier than planning to change and at seventy-five thereu2019s a lot to review. n The presenting […]
July 4th – US Independence Day Amid the fireworks and cookouts, Ferris wheels, cotton candy and win-a-stuffie pellet-gun booths at Lion’s Club sponsored carnivals, amid the politicians’ speechifying, “hooray-for-our-side-doncha ever-vote-for-them-evil-bastards-agin,” amid apple pie and chit’lins, samosas, spring rolls, and empanadas, thick-steaks and veggie burgers, Let Us Remember. Remember that 247 years ago today a group […]
