by lewsauder | Jan 6, 2017 | Career Management, Getting in to Consulting
I’ve had the good fortune to work for some great leaders during my career. Some have been better than others. But most were very good from one aspect or another. I learned from the best and the mediocre. I once had the misfortune to work for someone who was put in a...
by lewsauder | Apr 11, 2016 | Career Management
One of the greatest fears anyone can have in their career is an impending layoff. It usually starts as a rumor. “Hey did you hear they’re planning layoffs?” There is always that person who seems to always have the inside track. Sometimes the rumor comes to fruition....
by lewsauder | Mar 14, 2016 | Career Management
Successful consultants know that there are two critical success factors to consulting: Provide quality service and sell more of it. It is hard to sell more services if the ones you deliver are of poor quality. But providing top quality does not guarantee additional...
by lewsauder | Feb 29, 2016 | Career Management
I once worked for a man that had a defined process for everything. He tracked everything with a spreadsheet. Everyone was expected to follow all of his processes to the letter. People became so bogged down following process that they got little else done. It was also...
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...
