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“I know. I’ll become an independent consultant.” Consultants, corporate staff people, or executives came to this career epiphany before asking my advice. I gave them these five things to think a…

“I know. I’ll be…

“I know. I’ll become an independent consultant.” Consultants, corporate staff people, or executives came to this career epiphany before asking my advice. I gave them these five things to think about. #1 Why? The first question I asked was “Why?” because it helped me shape the advice. Consultants felt limited at their firm. Maybe they missed a promotion and in “up or out” world, were headed OUT. Maybe they groused about compensation and said, “if I worked for myself  I could keep all the money.” Maybe they chafed at the power structure and wanted autonomy. These folks underst…

“I seek dead people” My wife is an amateur genealogist. She spends her Retirement researching her extended, extended family. She is a detail person, a puzzler, a rigorous researcher, and a writer.…

“I seek dead peopl…

“I seek dead people” My wife is an amateur genealogist. She spends her Retirement researching her extended, extended family. She is a detail person, a puzzler, a rigorous researcher, and a writer. She uses all her skills pursuing records of her long dead relatives. Giving gifts to support her passion is a challenge. I’ve considered books, but it’s like buying Sculpture for Dummies for Michaelangelo. I’ve settled on tee shirts and coffee mugs with dumb genealogy jokes, which, like telling consultant jokes to consultants, must get old. Genealogy is history taken personally Billie’s f…

“Consultant, eh? Good money for old rope!” It was my first day on-site, at my first consulting project. I was still in business school. Angus, this sixty-year-old Cheshire truck manufacturing mana…

“Consultant, eh? G…

“Consultant, eh? Good money for old rope!” It was my first day on-site, at my first consulting project. I was still in business school. Angus, this sixty-year-old Cheshire truck manufacturing manager was communicating his experience with consultants. I wasn’t completely oblivious. I did know it wasn’t positive experience. I may have asked him to explain or maybe he just did. In his view consultants came up with solutions that had been thought of and tried before and that if management was serious about solving the problem they should ask the workforce. Now I agree with him. Then I prob…