Aug 5, 2025 · 6 min read · As you go along in life, you'll notice that people are very different. Some are curious, some are timid; some love stability, some crave adventure; some want fairness, some want to get ahead by any means possible. I've broken this into five types of ...
Join discussionAug 1, 2025 · 4 min read · People HATE change! Is one of the major misconceptions running rampant in the world today. Let me explain … no, no … let me illustrate. We were members of a small (40-50 member) church that was hoping to grow and help revitalize a marginalized Boston...
Join discussionJul 29, 2025 · 4 min read · I can’t believe you hired that guy, Dick! He can’t do anything, and he doesn’t understand anything. I was a senior consultant at a boutique consulting company. We had Fortune 100 clients across the US for whom we made bespoke sales force automation ...
Join discussionJul 25, 2025 · 4 min read · It wasn't until I became an adult that I fell in love with soccer. Growing up in western Pennsylvania, with names like Joe Namath and Tony Dorsett in my phone book, I only knew of the football America knew, not the one the world knew. When we were lo...
Join discussionJul 22, 2025 · 2 min read · This is a life lesson I’ve been learning since I was at least a teenager. The first time this showed up in my life was as a 12 yr old, at my job in the nearby fruit orchard. One of the tasks we had to do in the Spring was to go around each fruit tre...
Join discussionJul 18, 2025 · 2 min read · It was a crushing defeat. One of the Big Three consulting companies had swooped in and won the contract out from under our noses, promising “economies of scale” and “years of experience”. Ten months later, however, the client was back, asking us to t...
Join discussionJul 15, 2025 · 2 min read · It was Friday evening. I was upstairs at my father’s house in rural Pennsylvania, (barely) connected to the internet with my Verizon hotspot. An ancient window AC wheezed a trickle of coolish air into the steamy August night. One more task and I coul...
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Jul 11, 2025 · 3 min read · This one was a consultant’s dream. The customer was close enough to walk to from our office! I could do most of the work at my office, and only have to go to the customer when we needed to show progress or drill down on requirements. The scope looke...
MMichael commentedJul 8, 2025 · 1 min read · ‘Only idiots learn from their mistakes, I learn from the mistakes of others’ -Otto Von Bismarck It baffles me how many people witness the mistakes made by others, only to repeat those exact mistakes themselves, and then wonder why they failed in the ...
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Jul 9, 2025 · 3 min read · I cycled into the parking lot bright and early that glorious summer Saturday. I was going to install and try my new code on the mainframe all by myself that day. If I was quick, I could spend the afternoon playing pickup basketball at the park with t...
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