by lewsauder | Jan 18, 2016 | Career Management
The movie “Eight Men Out” is about the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal in which several members of the Chicago White Sox fixed the World Series by losing games on purpose. They did this based on an agreement with two gamblers who promised to pay them more for losing than...
by lewsauder | Jan 4, 2016 | Career Management
Boy, did I screw up last week. We had a big opportunity for one of our biggest clients. They asked if we could help them place a very specific resource. They only needed this resource for about two or three months. It wasn’t going to result in a lot of direct profit...
by lewsauder | Dec 7, 2015 | Client relations
The old folk story of stone soup is about three vagrant travelers passing through a small town with nothing but a cooking pot. They ask residents of the town for food but meet resistance at every door. Finally, they go to the local stream and fill their cooking pot...
by lewsauder | Nov 23, 2015 | Client relations
I have an aunt who up until the age of 93 drove herself to the doctor for each visit. At each of those visits, the doctor would to tell her to stop smoking. She didn’t heed his advice and her life was cut short at 95 years of age. We tend to look to doctors to heal...
by lewsauder | Nov 9, 2015 | Career Management
If somebody mentions consulting, many things may come to mind, mainly because there are so many types of consulting. There are consultants in virtually every industry that will provide any number of services needed by their clients. But regardless of the industry or...
