Whenever I failed at consulting, it almost always started with my belief that what I was doing would be easy.
Oops and OS#!T: Consulting Failure Modes
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Consulting
Client Bashing? Stop.
When you are bashing your client, you are deeming them unworthy of your help. Why would you “serve’ someone you considered unworthy of your service?
Untangling the Mess
Sometimes what is wrong is unclear, a tangled mess of multiple interrelated problems. Here is how I learned to break such logjams.
Humbling and Gratifying
Reflections on self-publishing a very niche book, leaving me humble and grateful.
The Grateful Consultant
Gratitudeis an important value for a good consultant.
Strategy: It’s the Thought that Counts
An Eisenhower quote about plans and planning seems unintelligible to many, but contains the essence of strategy.
Leading
I’m Sorry
“I’m sorry. So Sorry. Please accept my apology,” ruminations on the first step in not being a terrible person anymore.
Learning from Genghis
Genghis Khan killed forty million people. I don’t glorify his brutal war-lord behavior. He was nicer to his followers than his enemies and there are some surprising things to learn from his leadership.
SUWI or SUWOI?
Some lessons from Hamlet on how leaders might deal with flattery.
The New Leader Opportunity
Anytime you lead a new group of people it is a new leader opportunity. The opportunity communicates how you value followers, or don’t. Unity, input, transparency, and fairness are watchwords.
Change: Alarms and Indicators
People make Change happen. Unfortunately we don’t come with warning lights. Pay attention to language.
Leadership Dysfunction 2.0
A window into Leadership Dysfunction. Don’t be this guy!
Living
Don’t Panic!
A shoeshine boy and his customer talk recession economics.
Just My Luck
Ruminations on luck and superstition
Language—Story—Writing—AI (?)
Ruminating on how the brain progressed from the spoken to written word and beyond.
Patience Redux
I can be patient about many things. I am relearning how to be patient about my health.
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men”
New Year’s resolutions are four thousand years old -will I keep mine this year?
A Community of Light
Happy solstice, in the north our shortest day -and through export of religion, hope that the Light will come again
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