Two consultants, one external, one internal, meet in a bar and discover what they have in common
The Pause
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Consulting
“No One Ever Told Me That.”
Three ex-Gemini consultants reminisce about what “no one ever told them” about consulting.
“On the Beach”
“On the beach” is consulting slang for unapplied, which is never a good thing for a consultant.
Consulting and Change How-Tos
I hope both my books, Traveling the Consulting Road and Change Leader? Who Me?, will have value for consultants.
Consulting: Plus ça Change
A conversation with a consulting colleague gets around to what isn’t changing.
Consulting = Change?
I was completely clueless when I became a consultant. I thought consulting was about providing information.
Leading
Sacrifice
My Memorial Day verse was not published the first time I tried, seems I’m cursed by technology’s worst. Here’s hoping this remembrance burst makes it now.
Resilience
I almost didn’t post this week. Here are the reasons and what I learned.
The View from the Ridge: Values
The world of work is changing drastically, and from afar it looks like the change isn’t being particularly well led.
Is Your Leadership Helpful?
Where did my value of being helpful come from?
Conceptual Reductionisms
The late Ric Taylor used two 50 cent words to describe my tendency to simplify
Thinking about Thinking 2: Mindsets
Reviews and comparisons about books on thinking
Living
Razed in the Light of the Flickering Screen
A memory one on my first stories starts me thinking about the impact of television.
Lost Knowledge
New technology drives out old knowledge and skill. What has lost knowledge meant in the past? What will it mean in the future?
A Little Traveling Music
Thoughts about travel given an impending trip
Longevity and Guitar
What does it take to live to 100? And what does that have to do with playing guitar?
AI Songwriting
Summary of this blog in AI Generated song -Yikes!
Wisdom from the Apocalypse
What do post-apocalyptic survival dramas teach us about the real world?
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