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Alan Cay Culler Writer of Stories and Songs

I'm a writer.

Writing is my fourth career -actor, celebrity speakers booking agent, change consultant - and now writer.
I write stories about my experiences and what I've learned- in consulting for consultants, about change for leaders, and just working, loving and living wisely.

To be clear, I'm more wiseacre than wise man, but I'm at the front end of the Baby Boom so I've had a lot of opportunity to make mistakes. I made more than my share and even learned from some of them, so now I write them down in hopes that someone else might not have to make the same mistakes.

I have also made a habit of talking with ordinary people who have on occasion shared extraordinary wisdom.

Much of what I write about has to do with business because I was a strategic change consultant for thirty-seven years. My bias is that business is about people - called customers, staff, suppliers, shareholders or the community, but all human beings with hopes, and dreams, thoughts and emotions.. They didn't teach me that at the London Business School, nor even at Columbia University's Principles of Organization Development. I learned that first in my theater undergraduate degree, while observing people in order to portray a character.

Now I'm writing these observations in stories, shared here for other Baby Boomers and those who want to read about us.

Recent Content

Who is Your Client?

Alan Cay Culler September 17, 2023

The Question Mark in the Sky

Ancient History “…

Ancient History “Oh Wow!” Human beings have gotten cricks in our necks staring at the night sky for a long time. The Lascaux caves in France, dating from 30,000 years ago have a graphical representation of the Pleiades; a carved mammoth ivory tusk carbon dated to 32,500 years ago has what may be the oldest existing star chart. Astronomers often date the beginnings of their field to the Babylonians in 1000 BCE who produced the first systematic observation records of star and planet movements. This ignores whatever observation and calculations that allowed the megalithic people to build N…

Alan Cay Culler September 10, 2023

R U a but-head?

Alan Cay Culler September 4, 2023

Will AI Replace Consultants?

Alan Cay Culler August 27, 2023

Flow and the Grand Opening Extravaganza

Acme Grand Opening I…

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 to be soled and then headed to Upper Montclair pick up some flipchart markers and stop at that CVS with parking to buy ibuprofen and, while I was there, scored some great birthday cards for my kids upcoming birthdays. I bought wine at the wine shop and some brie at the cheese shop next door, and I was “cookin�…

Alan Cay Culler August 20, 2023