Consulting
The privatization of British Airways 1984-1987: My first and arguably most dramatically successful large scale change project, also inspired two change experts to create a model I used throughout my career. My learning there, however, was not confined to BA’s success.
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.
Leading
The preface and opening story of Change Leader? Who Me?
Is empathy real? Is it a good thing? An exploration of semantic differences talking about compassion.
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
Living
I have lived my life so far surrounded by gardeners and growers. We talk all the time about growing our businesses, growing our people, growing our children. I wonder if we truly understand the implications of that analogy.
Reflections on the meaning of what grows on heads and faces.
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.
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