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Do you copy the right people?
Most of us get more emails in a day than we would like to admit. Most of us have at least two email accounts: work and personal. As a consultant, I have an account for my firm, my client, and two personal accounts. I have a daily routine of going through and killing...
Do You Take Time to Save Time?
I saw a great cartoon the other day. It was drawing of two cave men pushing a cart with square wheels. Another cave man is offering them round wheels to replace the square ones. To which they respond “No Thanks. We are too busy.” It’s easy for us non-cave people to...
Roll off: Sudden Death or Drawn Out?
Like most rational human beings, I hope I don’t die for a long time. But without being too macabre, I do think about death occasionally. Every once in a while someone will ask the question, “How do you want to die?” I’ve never been able to come up with a specific way...
Getting to Agreement
We live in divided times today. And as much as we want to complain about it, it is nothing new. Abraham Lincoln famously said “a house divided cannot stand.” There are many examples of major disagreements throughout history. We humans can be a disagreeable group of...
Overplaying Your Leverage
Our current president has been given the opportunity of doing something that many new presidents do. With his party holding a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, he has leverage. This gives him the ability to push legislation through congress...
It Depends is Always the Answer
I’ve heard people – mostly clients – that joke about the fact that you have officially made it as a consultant when you learn that the answer to everything is It depends. There is a lot of truth to that. It’s not a matter of being evasive. And it’s usually not a...
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