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Integrated Lunch: Cohesive Team

When a project team starts up, there are the typical team building practices that take place.  Although some teams implement formal team-building exercises like walking together on a beam, that’s not the type of thing I’m talking about. There are natural team building...

Competent or Intelligent?

I once worked with an individual who was described to me as follows: “He is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met. But he’s incredibly incompetent at what he does.” I had to laugh when I first heard that.  I wasn’t sure how anyone that intelligent could...

How to Transfer Knowledge to Your Client

Consultants are hired by clients for a number of reasons.  A client may need to increase their staff temporarily for a special project. Or they may need specialized knowledge that isn’t necessary for the client to hire on a full-time basis. Still other times, the...

How To Be Successful in Consulting by Failing

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

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...