<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 […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u201cYou think weird!u201d n Fred, my client, was being complimentary. He was explaining why he liked having me around. u201cNo really, I mean it. You see third and fourth level consequences that I would never think about. You understand multiple connections and five ways to solve a problem, when Iu2019m lucky to […]

Calendar Schmalendar! Today is January 1st. Actually I am writing this over three days starting on December 30th and it won’t be posted on this site until 4:00 a.m. on January 2nd and goodness knows when you are reading it – assuming anyone is actually reading it. There is this day called New Year’s, on […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Until January 9th the eBook is available to subscribers, reviewers and friends for $1.99, the lowest price Amazon would let me set. n Click Here n And now some expressed and much deserved gratitude: n n Acknowledgements: Traveling the Consulting Road n In my life, I have had lots of help. I […]

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The Day After Christmas n When I was growing up in 1950s New England, the day after Christmas was a recovery day. Kids played with toys that werenu2019t broken yet. If there was snow, boys went outside for sledding, and snowfort snowball fights. If it was cold and not much recent snow […]