“I’m a consultant, not a coach!” He said this with a sneer dripping off the word coach that you could smell across the room. The problem was we were not really hired as consultants, at least not as he was defining a consultant. We were hired to teach a client coaches how to support continuous […]

My haircutter history When a was a curly tow headed two-year-old my hair drew a lot of attention. I’m told I was not happy with my first haircut. I bawled uncontrollably when my father took me to his barber shop, which amused the barber.  They finally gave me a cookie to shut me up. No, […]

Croesus In 560 BCE the mighty King Croesus of Lydia issued a request for proposals (RFP) to the major oracles of ancient Greece. “Why should I choose you as my oracle of choice?” he asked. “I know the number of the sand and the measure of the sea,” began the Pythia, sybil, sorceress, lead consultant […]

The Kerent and the Wisemen” rel=”nofollow”> A problem . . . It was the time before the coming of scribes, when history’s wisdom was held in memory and sung in rhyme. Then wisemen travelled the land trading their wisdom for food, lodging and coin. It was a time of tribes and small landholdings with crops […]

What’s in a Name?” rel=”nofollow”> “I’m going to be a big brother” My son and his bride are anticipating the birth of their second child. With their first, they wanted to be surprised, so they dove into the name selection ritual for two genders. “No not Louisa; I went to elementary school with a Louisa […]