More than a living

Rick and I were recently having a conversation about the value of a consultant or contractor’s time, and how the concept of “consultative value” may or may not translate into a meaningful bill rate. Rick observed that too often the line of tactical versus strategic advice is backwards, with “strategic” insights being given away for […]

Day One at a new company – who will you be here? What will your work say about you?
Not that you can’t be the same person you were yesterday – that person got you hired after all. But how will you be more of who you are? The best version of what you can be?
Remember, […]

Ahem.
It’s been awfully quiet around here, as of late. And for that, I apologize.
Everyone is busy. Busy busy busy.
But I’m rarely, if ever, too busy to chat with you, gentle reader. So why don’t we get to it?
When I posted that we needed CSS help for Kumquat, I expected to get a few portfolios in […]

The engaging conversation occurring around “Knowing when to quit” already had me feeling better about the latest Kumquat decisions.
And then I read this from Joel on Software:
Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better.
There are thousands and tens of thousands of these tiny things.
It takes a […]

Ask yourself — if you were on your way to work and heard one of the world’s greatest violinists playing on the street, would you notice?
A brilliant piece in the Washington Post called “Pearls Before Breakfast” describes an experiment in which the authors asked Joshua Bell, a world-renowned violinist, to play his Stradivarius for 45 […]

After a read at SystematicHR titled “HR Versus Finance - Influence, Power, and a Seat at the Table Part 1“, here’s the question that has me puzzling this morning,
“Is human capital more or less valuable than financial capital?”
In bobble head fashion, I start my nodding while thinking “Yes, people are more valuable than wheelbarrows full […]