<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Stuff Needs Fixing n The lamp is twelve years old. It was a gift from a family member because it went with our last house, an Arts & Crafts fairy-hut in a stately home neighborhood about two miles from where we now live. It does have a Dirk Van Erp vibe, the […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u201cWhat? Me Worry?u201d n Consultants, especially young consultants, take some stick from time to time. There are consultant jokes. There is some under-the-breath name calling. It is all born of envy. It isnu2019t easy work for a company for ten years and watch the company hire a team of consultants, many younger […]
<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 […]
