Consulting
Recessions are tough. Consulting is discretionary spending, so sometimes in recessions clients save their business, by decimating yours. Sometimes consulting firms reduce force and suspend hiring. A few ideas.
Whenever I failed at consulting, it almost always started with my belief that what I was doing would be easy.
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?
Sometimes what is wrong is unclear, a tangled mess of multiple interrelated problems. Here is how I learned to break such logjams.
Reflections on self-publishing a very niche book, leaving me humble and grateful.
Gratitudeis an important value for a good consultant.
Leading
Change Leader? Who Me? Hard-Earned Wisdom for Those New to Leading Change, is coming soon. Here is a picture of the front cover designed by Lisa Monias of South River Design Team.
What do you mean protection? Lessons from a coffeeshop.
I have a new book coming soon. How did I get here?
Review on two books on solving the water element of climate change
How will you react in a crisis? Training yourself to react well.
Ruminations on when something happens, or doesn’t happen, and why that matters
Living
My personal mythology about finding lost things.
Yikes! Lessons from surviving three weeks of family gatherings
I’m a wiseacre seeking to become a wise man. I’m giving myself another twenty-two years and five months for this...
Penny wisdom? Reflections on the our smallest coin’s demise.
Some lessons from a summer job.
The seven deadly sins and what to do about them.
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