I was extraordinarily naïve when I decided to go to business school to become a consultant This is an anti-naiveté primer on a consulting career.
So You Wanna Be a Consultant?
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Consulting
OK Newbie, Listen Up!
New Job? In Consulting? This is advice for new management consultants, but those starting off in other jobs might get some...
Two Way Mirror: Beyond Finger Pointing
An exercise to resolve intergroup conflict -with two case examples
Ten Favorite Questions of a Process Consultant
Process consultants ask questions Content consultants, experts provide answers. They assume the client knows what he is...
How to “Feel” CI in 30 Minutes?
Some Just “Don’t Get Continuous Improvement (CI)” I was always dumfounded. I used to say “Continuous Improvement (CI) isn’t...
To Framework or Not to Framework
That is the question Frameworks, models, matrixes, and matrices (and yes, both plural forms of matrix are correct) are...
Leading
Connections from My Media Consumption
Four books and a TV program teach leadership lessons for turbulent times . . .
Review: Becoming Unbelievably Successful, by John Knotts
A workbook won’t work unless you do the work
Weird Thinking, Org. Design and Super Asymmetry
Unthink, a book I read, reminds me ofr a presentation I made tweny years ago and gives a peek inside the squirrel cage that is my mind. . .😊
Eastland and Westland Views
Two communities in the mountains are similar, but different.
Preparing to Lead Change
What’s next? Sentient robots and flying cars? Lessons on leading change.
The Vision Thing
Visions are powerful, but not always the answer
Living
Another’s Secret
What is the secret of life/” It’s a question I often ask in chance encounters with ordinary people. Here is another answer.
Learning from the Brothers Grimm
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected German children’s storeies by talking with grandmothers and housewives. It is a amazing what we can lean from them.
Not Ready for the “Reeks and Wrecks”
Mr. Fix-it fails again -lessons from a deterioration of skills and worries about the coming Zombie Apocalypse
Becoming Interesting
Wisdom from a beer commercial? Really Dude? . . . Well, I don’t know about wisdom, but I think it’s interesting. . .
Arriving for the Break
My quirky relationship with the cadence of the universe.
The Ages of Man
Looking at the ages of a life from the ancient Greeks till today
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