Gratitudeis an important value for a good consultant.
The Grateful Consultant
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Consulting
Strategy: It’s the Thought that Counts
An Eisenhower quote about plans and planning seems unintelligible to many, but contains the essence of strategy.
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
Leading
Self-Mastery
How will you react in a crisis? Training yourself to react well.
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.
Living
I Scream, You Scream
Some lessons from a summer job.
The Un-Magnificent Seven
The seven deadly sins and what to do about them.
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
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