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
Strange motivation connections from my previous careers
# “Laws” in management science and their impact
I heard leaders express frustration with their followers:
“Why won’t they just DO what I ask?”
Reflection Memo
RE?
Exactly.
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.
Living
Are we here to discover and share wisdom?
A tribute to a family member, PIP RIP
“Those who came before us had the knowing and the doing beyond our ken.” My wife and I visited Newgrange northwest of...
I’ve been told I write for exceptions to the adages, “Young consultants won’t listen, and old consultants don’t read.” and “You have to fail at change before you take it seriously.” It turns out to be a larger niche than anyone imagined.
Thanksgiving 2025, reflections from cynical to sanguine
A strange old man appears with unusual knowledge. Will villagers learn from him?
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