I started writing to share what I had learned. My first pieces in the early 1990s recorded the stories told to me by ordinary people, Mico a salt-of-the-earth guy who cut my hair, Ed, a retried train engineer, shining shoes in a hotel, Sam, a cigar-smoking booking agent. Then I began to write provocative pieces […]
I recently lost the small bone-handled pocketknife pictured above. The last time I remember seeing it was opening the Chewy box for Pip, our ancient, blind, diabetic, Black Lab for whom we are acting as seeing-eye humans and hospice-care-workers. Don’t feel too sorry for Pip. In my next life I want to come back in […]
Is consulting having a bad year? I used to diagnose consulting industry economics by the number of consultants who called me asking “Can I pick your brain?” Despite the unpleasantness of that visual, I usually took the call. These consultants hadn’t been promoted and were being encouraged to “get on with the value-added part of […]
A comprehensive sourcebook for ensuring that Earth has water to support human life Climate change is scary. The enormity of the environmental problems we face can be overwhelming. What should we do? Where should we begin? Dr. Kathleen Luske Brooke is a researcher, a writer and activist who is in the process of a huge […]
“Are you OK?” “Huh?” “I mean you’re not quite here.” “Oh, sorry. I think I’m just stunned.” This was the conversation my wife and I had during a late breakfast yesterday. Lately, we have a quiet little life. I write; she does genealogy research. We stay in our respective offices, meet for meals and after-dinner […]
Recently my friend Roopa was flying home to New York from Madrid. Somewhere over the Atlantic the plane lost one engine. I flew hundreds of thousands of miles in my career as a consultant and have traveled extensively internationally, and have only ever experienced some mild turbulence once or twice. So I don’t know how […]
Recently my friend Roopa was flying home to New York from Madrid. Somewhere over the Atlantic the plane lost one engine. I flew hundreds of thousands of miles in my career as a consultant and have traveled extensively internationally, and have only ever experienced some mild turbulence once or twice. So I don’t know how […]
Recently my friend Roopa was flying home to New York from Madrid. Somewhere over the Atlantic the plane lost one engine. I flew hundreds of thousands of miles in my career as a consultant and have traveled extensively internationally, and have only ever experienced some mild turbulence once or twice. So I don’t know how […]
Consulting firms are constantly hiring. The big firms recruit top university students to join for an average of two years before they go on ‘to industry,” or graduate school. Firms recruit at masters and PhD programs in business, law and STEM . Firms recruit mid-career specialists or senior executives with large networks for client acquisition […]
Consulting firms are constantly hiring. The big firms recruit top university students to join for an average of two years before they go on ‘to industry,” or graduate school. Firms recruit at masters and PhD programs in business, law and STEM . Firms recruit mid-career specialists or senior executives with large networks for client acquisition […]
