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10 Ways to Be the Chief Executive Officer of your Career

Mar 16, 2015 | Career Management

The chief executive officer is the head honcho. The person in charge. He or she is the one that presumably calls the shots. The CEO is everything you should be for your own career. Here I discuss 10 parallels between what a CEO does and what you should be doing to be...

10 Ways to Have More Efficient Days

Mar 2, 2015 | Career Management

I meet busy people all the time. They're the people who run from meeting to meeting. They're usually running late. They start a to-do list, but they usually don't finish writing out all of their tasks. They're too busy attending to one emergency after another. People...

5 Tips for Consulting Interviews

Feb 16, 2015 | Getting in to Consulting

When I was a college senior interviewing with top consulting firms, I had two problems. Information about how to interview wasn't readily available and I wasn't ambitious enough to seek out what was there. I went into most of my interviews cold, just planning to be...

7 Reasons Young Consultants Fail

Feb 2, 2015 | Getting in to Consulting

In my twenty years of consulting, I've seen many consultants come and go. Some decide that it's not for them. For others, the decision is made for them. A client may kick the consultant off the project, or the firm may remove them as a form of damage control. Every...

5 Consulting Career Secrets

Jan 19, 2015 | Career Management

I've witnessed many stories of success and failure in consulting. I've found that some people flourish in consulting while others either fail or get stuck in a purgatory-like existence. These people neither succeed nor completely fail. They are simply unhappily stuck...

5 Difficult Client types and How to Deal with Them

Jan 5, 2015 | Client relations

Over my 20+ years of consulting, I've dealt with many types of clients. Most have been good clients. They were cooperative and wanted to solve problems in a collaborative environment. Every once in a while, I've run into one that isn’t so cooperative. Perhaps they had...