Episode 51: The One About Architecture and Consulting
What is an architect? What is architecture? In the business technology context, is architecture a profession? What do architects do? A quick Google search reveals an endless debate on these…
Category: Softer Side
Episodes dealing with soft skills, people or culture issues as the central theme.
Episode 50: The One About The Top 5 Special
Four years ago a friend told me that since I had so much to say about business and technology topics that I should go make a podcast. In retrospect I…
Episode 49: The One About Consulting Myths & Memes
The work environment can be tough. It is often political and tiresome and exhausting. The work week can be a tough slog. However… the workplace can often be very funny.…
Episode 48: The One About Assessing Consulting Skills
In the battle for talent, how do you identify people who are likely to exhibit the qualities you want? How do you do the same with your existing employees? Assessments?…
Episode 47: The One About Storytelling
We all know smart people. They often have smart plans and smart designs. Sometimes fancy shoes. But the smartest plan or design is totally useless if it can’t be explained…
Episode 44: The One About Ethics in Consulting
In our connected world of technology, the ways in which we engage with businesses and clients can have a big impact. And as we’ve seen with the ways in which…
Episode 41: The One About Job Cycles
Is it The Great Rebalance? The Great Reshuffle? The Great Resignation? The Great Discontent? To read about it, companies are really struggling to find workers these days. Clearly there aren’t…
Episode 39: The One About Young Consultants
Consulting may be an old profession (the second oldest?) but no one can argue that it hasn’t undergone tremendous change over the past 20 years. It makes sense, after all.…
Episode 38: The One About Mentorship
I used to think that if I could just clone myself a few times I might have the most perfect team and we’d produce the most perfect slides… Aside from…
Episode 37: The One About Return to Office
Well it looks like things are getting back to normal. Everyone should just go back to doing things like they did prior to Covid. All will be as it was……
Episode 34: The One About Philosophy
If you live in the real world, if you practice your profession in the real world, then you’ll know the real world loves throwing crap at you whenever it can.…
Episode 33: The One About Women in Consulting
Consulting can be a tough game. All of these Type-A personalities aggressively posturing and circling each other for the kill. Egos are large and there’s no shortage of locker-room braggadocio.…
Episode 28: The One About Enterprise Architecture
One of the most overwrought concepts in business and technology is the idea of the Enterprise Architect and the Architecture they practice. Libraries have been written about this topic. Literally.…
Episode 27: The One About Video Conferencing
If there is one thing the pandemic has revealed to us more than anything else, it’s how terrible people are at video conferencing. Whether it is the “up-the-nostril” laptop webcam…
Episode 23: The One About Domain Knowledge
How often have you seen consulting job descriptions that contain things like “10 years of health claims processing experience required” ? Ever thought that it sounded like a bunch of…
Episode 21: The One About Values
Consulting practitioners aren’t often asked by prospective clients about their value system. But if we’re real about it for a split second, our values dictate the work we do and…
Episode 17: The One About Work-Life Balance
The concept of “work-life balance” has got to be one of the most meaningless, wink-and-nod, overused career tropes out there. Right? Some say it is all about living life and…
Episode 16: The One About Shadow IT
For many folks in the business, the centralized ‘legacy IT’ group is just too damn slow and expensive and has too many rules. So why not fire up Excel and…
Episode 15: The One About Staying Relevant
Tired of nonstop social media posts urging you to ‘hustle’ and ‘grind’ to get ahead and stay ahead? Feel like you need a dozen certifications and maybe a couple published…
Episode 13: The One About Consulting – Art or Science?
Solving business problems is programmatic, right? That is, if one follows a specific, prescribed formula, all business problems can be recognized and addressed. Or would you say that every good…
