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Rich or Famous?
"What makes you happy? In your golden years, what do you want to be grateful for?" ...
The New Leader Opportunity
"Business is not a democracy, but lack of input and perceived injustice can still cause people to vote with their feet, either dragging them or using them to walk out, taking critical knowledge and skill with them." ...
Change: Alarms and Indicators
"Unintended consequences are a real concern in change. What seems like a simple action changes unseen variables." ...
Humbling and Gratifying
"Come to think about it. I have written before about humility and gratitude being tickets for admission to becoming a good consultant." ...
Strategy: It’s the Thought that Counts
"Why is it that strategy consultants find that clients fail to implement the pristine strategies they design? It’s because the client didn’t do the thinking; the consultant did." ...
The Change Mindset
"Dissatisfaction pushes; vision pulls you. Dissatisfaction, rejecting the current state, is reality-based problem definition. Vision is opportunity and solution finding." ...
Dream Wisdom
"When you feel like you are “beating your head against a brick wall,” step back, or rise up. Can you go around the wall or over the wall, rather than through it?" ...
The Straight Skinny
"You can look for straight skinny devotes by assiduously avoiding the opposites." ...
Finding Clients
"Every consultant is a person who listens to a client describe something that isn’t happening as expected or is happening unexpectedly, and helps the client solve that problem." ...