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Consulting
Paradigms, Stereotypes and Mental Models
How we think is important. When you’re in a hole. . .
Consulting and the Standing ‘O’
My standing ‘O’ upstaged my boss -oops.
Who is Your Client?
Know who hired you and why
Will AI Replace Consultants?
The Ancient Late Adopter speaks Let us be clear, I am old. I started as a consultant in 1980; I retired as a consultant...
Voice of the Customer? Huh?
Improvement and Innovation Over my thirty-seven years as a change consultant, I worked on a lot of improvement and...
Leading
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!
AI “Personalization:” Everything Old is New Again
AI personalization? Potholes and pitfalls to watch out for.
Good Grief
Processing emotions in change and the stages of grief can be similar.
Be careful “helping” others.
Living
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.
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
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