An Eisenhower quote about plans and planning seems unintelligible to many, but contains the essence of strategy.
Strategy: It’s the Thought that Counts
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Consulting
Trivial and Non-trivial Consulting Skills
Here’s some consulting skills. What’s critical? You decide.
Going Independent Redux: Avoiding 5 Bone-Headed Mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes as an independent consultant. I urge aspiring independents to avoid these five
Five Things to Think About Before You Become Independent Consultant
“I know. I’ll become an independent consultant.”
Consultants, corporate staff people, or executives came to this career epiphany before asking my advice. I gave them these five things to think about.
Consultant-osis and Change-itis
Two “diseases” consultants face in their work: Symptomes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments
Finding Clients
It’s a paradox: Consultants seem allergic to the idea of selling, but they must find clients. Here is some of what I learned.
Leading
When Matters
Ruminations on when something happens, or doesn’t happen, and why that matters
Combating Bureaucracy
My reactions to three articles about bureaucracy and how to combat it.
Remembrance
On this Memorial Day weekend, I find myself thinking of the ultimate “abnormal circumstance,” in which leaders emerge ̶ war. A veteran from the war of my generation, in which I didn’t fight, embodied service, empathy, and remembrance.
It’s a Process
Thoughts about task and process focus, and the measurements for each.
Grey: Finding Your How
The Grey One advises young clan members on how to find what they are meant to do.
I’m Sorry
“I’m sorry. So Sorry. Please accept my apology,” ruminations on the first step in not being a terrible person anymore.
Living
The Purple Lotus
Flower power, a cherished memory from long ago and far away
A Single Unmatched Sock
It happens to many of us from time to time. Something goes missing, is “misplaced,” and – no matter how hard we look, and...
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.
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