I made a lot of mistakes as an independent consultant. I urge aspiring independents to avoid these five
Going Independent Redux: Avoiding 5 Bone-Headed Mistakes
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Consulting
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.
Consulting: Changed and Changing
Given how consulting changed in the last forty years, imagine how it will change in the future
Life After Consulting
Timing! If you got caught by the consulting industry downturn, here are some lessons learned from my out of synch way of being in the world.
Leading
Review: Renewing the World: Water
Review on two books on solving the water element of climate change
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.
Living
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
Language—Story—Writing—AI (?)
Ruminating on how the brain progressed from the spoken to written word and beyond.
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