3 Signs Your Consulting Firm will fail

One of the greatest fears anyone can have in their career is an impending layoff. It usually starts as a rumor. “Hey did you hear they’re planning layoffs?” There is always that person who seems to always have the inside track. Sometimes the rumor comes to fruition....

How To Be Successful in Consulting by Failing

We hear about people “playing it safe” all the time. You hear it in investing scenarios when someone invests in vehicles that may not aggressively increase in value, but probably won’t lose value. Sport team’s do it all the time.  Football teams develop prevent...

Failure…According to Plan

It’s been said that we get what we measure.  That can be either good news or bad.  If a consulting sales team is measured strictly on the sales revenue they bring in, you may get some sales people who go out and sell a lot of services.  Whether they sell services that...

How I’ve Learned to Love Failing

After a five-year stint away from consulting, I realized that I missed it.  A lot.  I enjoyed the two jobs I held during my little sabbatical and met some incredible people.  But I didn’t find it as challenging and fulfilling as consulting. So I’m now nearly two...