It’s a paradox: Consultants seem allergic to the idea of selling, but they must find clients. Here is some of what I learned.
Finding Clients
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Consulting
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.
Hello Mid-Career Consultants
Mid-Career is time of choices, a fork in the Consulting Road
What Do Consultants Know, Anyway?
Consultants may know something, just not everything, regardless of how confident they sound.
What’s Up with Consultant Jokes?
Consulting jokes give clues about how to be a good consultant
Leading
I’m Sorry
“I’m sorry. So Sorry. Please accept my apology,” ruminations on the first step in not being a terrible person anymore.
Learning from Genghis
Genghis Khan killed forty million people. I don’t glorify his brutal war-lord behavior. He was nicer to his followers than his enemies and there are some surprising things to learn from his leadership.
SUWI or SUWOI?
Some lessons from Hamlet on how leaders might deal with flattery.
The New Leader Opportunity
Anytime you lead a new group of people it is a new leader opportunity. The opportunity communicates how you value followers, or don’t. Unity, input, transparency, and fairness are watchwords.
Change: Alarms and Indicators
People make Change happen. Unfortunately we don’t come with warning lights. Pay attention to language.
Leadership Dysfunction 2.0
A window into Leadership Dysfunction. Don’t be this guy!
Living
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.
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men”
New Year’s resolutions are four thousand years old -will I keep mine this year?
A Community of Light
Happy solstice, in the north our shortest day -and through export of religion, hope that the Light will come again
The Grey One’s Gift
Lessons from the Grey One
The Culler Curse
My family shares a behavioral curse, which I’ve learned to mitigate (sometimes), which others might benefit from.
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