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How To Be Successful in Consulting by Failing

Apr 7, 2014 | Career Management

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...

When Leaving Your Job Is the Right Option

Mar 31, 2014 | Career Management

From the time we start school as a child, our transitions in life are decided for us for many years. Each year we finish a grade in school, the next level has been predetermined. When we graduate from high school, even though most of us got to choose whether to go to...

How to Lose Business by Gold Plating

Mar 24, 2014 | Consulting Sales

I worked my way through college waiting tables. At one place I worked, we had a cook who treated employee meals differently than customer meals. Customers received the standard fair. They got what they ordered. But when an employee went on break and ordered a...

Is It Bad To Be a Bossy Woman?

Mar 18, 2014 | Communication

There has been a lot of talk about bossy women lately. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is leading a formidable group of successful women, including Condoleezza Rice and Girl Scouts CEO Anna Marie Chávez, on the banning of that word to describe women. Their purpose is...

A Consulting Limerick

Mar 17, 2014 | Humor

A man tried a career in consulting But his approach with clients was insulting He was arrogant and rude With the clients he’d feud And they found him to be quite revolting The firm chose to pull him aside And some mentoring had to provide They gave him some...

How We Are Taught Not to Succeed

Mar 10, 2014 | Career Management

I still remember my kindergarten class with Miss Fischer. We did our fair share of learning, memorizing the days of the week, the alphabet and so on. But more than that, I remember singing, playing, and climbing the jungle gym. It wasn’t until first grade that we...