Episode 56: The One About Social Media
Social media is a wonderful, terrible thing. It is a cosmos of tools that allow us to be our best or, perhaps more often, our worst. If we’re a knucklehead…
Episode 55: The One About Public Speaking
According to various polls, public speaking ranks as peoples’ top fear… ahead of snakes, heights, clowns and, in fact, death itself. Let that sink in. People would rather be DEAD…
Episode 54: The One About the Book Strategy to Reality
The knock on consulting is that so much of what goes on is either a bunch of fluff and hand-waving at a stratospheric, impractical level or narrowly focused on mostly…
Episode 53: The One About Mental Resiliency (With Experts)
Being mentally resilient in the face of everything the world throws at us can be daunting. Whether it’s work, family, friends, international politics… there’s a lot of stress on us…
Episode 52: The One About Mental Resiliency
Work can be hard. It can be stressful. Consulting in particular is full of A-Types who work long, busy hours trying to help in often frustrating client situations. What if…
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…
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 46: The One About Business Architecture
There is often a tendency for companies to prioritize action and delivery over planning and analysis. More “Deliver the widgets!” and less “What does our company actually do?” This can…
Episode 45: The 2021 Christmas Special!
Well. 2021 is finally over. Did you learn anything? Will you do anything different with your career in 2022? If not now, then when? For our annual Christmas Special, we…
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 43: The One About Sustainability
Consultants often help clients think about complex problems with few easy answers. There are almost always trade-offs to be made, regulations to follow, expenses to incur all while trying to…
Episode 42: The One About The Future of Consulting
If I were to only read my LinkedIn feed, I’d think every industry is being disrupted all the time, every day… Certainly a search for “future of consulting” yields plenty…
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 40: The One About Entrepreneurship
The model entrepreneur gets up one morning with a great idea, quits their job and boldly strikes out on their own… single-handedly building a great company from nothing, attracting flocks…
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……
