<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 […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u00a0House of Cards n We send holiday cards. My list includes people Iu2019m only in contact with once a year so I usually include a little handwritten note with some news. Not always; I sometimes run out of steam. So Iu2019ve learned to start at the u201cAu2019s one year and the u2018Zu2019s […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Kid stuff n Iu2019ve been reading Aesopu2019s Fables. Most of us read some of Aesopu2019s stories as children: the conceited hare so impressed with his own speed that he took many diversions and even a nap and so lost the race to the slow but steady tortoise. This left us with a […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Consulting Wisdom from Unusual Places n Is Consulting Wisdom an Oxymoron? n Hey Newbie, Listen up! n So You Want to be a Consultant? n Traveling the Consulting Road. n Almost six years ago I retired from consulting after thirty-seven years and I hatched a plan. I would write -first on LinkedIn, […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A Tale of Two Towns n To the hawk the two lands were not far. A few hours of hard flight perhaps, but with many updrafts for circling and trees on even the tallest ridges if the winds were not right and a rest was required, it could be pleasant. It was […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A Rant n Iu2019m not really a rant-kinda-guy, no really, Iu2019m not. . . n Whined the wishy-wash writer-wrestling with what the wrecked-world hath wrought . . . n Resistance is futile . . .a least, . . . thatu2019s what u201ctheyu201d say . . . n So ranters gonna rant, rant, […]
