This post will send in the wee hours o’ New Year’s Eve 2024. Here, in the good ole US of A, New Year’s Eve is amateur alcoholics night, when teetotalers, and even those with a serious drinking problem, know to leave the roads to those idiots who binge drink once a year, loud-singing the Robert […]
It is the Winter Solstice. In the cold we huddle around the fire, joined in our communities. At the dark time of year, when the days are short, we celebrate the light. During this time I often imagine ancient peoples in their shelters, with a roof smoke hole above the fire, bringing evergreen boughs inside, […]
It has been almost one year since I published Traveling the Consulting Road: Career Wisdom for New Consultants, Candidates, and Their Mentors. This year has been gratifying and humbling. It has been gratifying because a significant number of people have bought the book. Amazon data shows that my book sold more copies than 90% of […]
“People say I should have known. Maybe. There was that thing at the holiday party, but he was really drunk. The girl was drunk too, by the way. And anyway everybody agreed to drop it and she got another job soon after, so everything worked out. “He was such a sick programmer, I mean, really […]
The young one had a map of sorts, mostly a list of turns drawn on birchbark – arrow left at the big oak, right after the log bridge, and so on. The path was long for one so young, winding through a deep hardwood forest, crossing a rushing stream on a fallen log, then climbing […]
It is almost Thanksgiving. At our house we all sit around the turkey, for those who partake, and four-cheese mac-n-cheese for those who don’t, and say one thing we are each genuinely grateful for. Saying just one thing often precludes career stuff, I mean it doesn’t really stand up to health, and the love of […]
Disaster! Off and on all day yesterday, I puzzled over what to write this week. Some weeks the words flow like a fast stream onto the screen. Then there are those other times, when Billie says, “You know, none of your subscribers will show up at the door if you miss a week.” R–E–T–I–R–E–D? Isn’t […]
Here, in the United States of America, we just had the quadrennial shouting match we call our presidential elections. We are a very divided country. We have been divided since our founding according to how much government we want and where the locus of power should reside, federal, state, or local. Now we are also […]
Alan Culler and I are comfortable calling ourselves “old sales guys.” Recently, we each watched a video where a consultant described how a company could connect with its customers using information that they already had, “personalizing” the customer experience. The young man wasn’t a great presenter, but there was nothing wrong with the content he […]
“A woodworker must “apply a thousand skills” to find the ideal use for each piece of wood, respecting the “soul of the tree” and shaping it to realize its true potential” George Nakashima, architect, artist, builder of beautiful wood furniture worked until his nineties. Now his children carry on his craft. In the fourteenth […]
