Given how consulting changed in the last forty years, imagine how it will change in the future
Consulting: Changed and Changing
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Consulting
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
Consultants Are Everywhere *
Drawing wisdom from Mico’s stories started my writing career. This one is the Preface to my book Traveling the Consulting Road.
Leading
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.
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.
Living
Cliché Wisdom
I’m a wiseacre seeking to become a wise man. I’m giving myself another twenty-two years and five months for this...
Penny Goodbye
Penny wisdom? Reflections on the our smallest coin’s demise.
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...
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