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How Conflicting Objectives Cause Office Politics
On the morning of January 5th, Tom Parks, director of application development, filed into the company auditorium with the rest of his co-workers to hear the president give his "state of the company" speech. It was a routine Tom knew well. The president gave this...
4 Signs That Office Obedience is Dead
If you follow how people behave in movies and television, you would think that management is a series of orders barked out by managers with the obedient, if not disgruntled, employee following those orders. My way or the highway I'm certain that type of management...
Consulting Downside: Separation Anxiety
When I began interviewing with companies during my senior year of college, it was important for me to find a company that had a good culture. I had an outgoing personality and liked to have fun. I wanted a corporate culture that closely matched my personality....
Is That an Employee or Consultant?
When I started my career in consulting, I was part of a consulting team. We went to the client and worked as a blended team where there were approximately half of us as consultants and half as client employees. It wasn't long until I realized that some of the folks...
The 3 Types of Consulting Approaches
If you mention to someone that you are a consultant, you tend to get a wide variety of responses. You can usually tell immediately whether the person has had a good experience with consultants by their response. If there is a pregnant pause as they try to think of...
A High Status Workspace is Not Usually Given to a Consultant
We see evidence of status all over the work place. The boss in the corner office; larger, more comfortable chairs for management; and cubicles by the window for people with more seniority. There are companies who try to remove the haughty symbols of status in...
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