The Consulting Blues: Surviving A Slump

It happens to every independent consultant at least once or twice.  Everyone else is thriving while you're wilting.   Your peers complain about having more work than they can handle, and that they don't know how they're going to get it all done...

What if there aren’t any “best practices”?

Unfortunately, many market strategists are used to following best practices, and doing what has worked well before, and today, there’s no rule book. As a group, strategy professionals are great students, with strong frameworks and discipline, but with a Wild West scenario in front of them, it’s not clear what the best thing to do might be.

Call me! Phones vs Texts.

My daughters love their iPhones, respond to my texts instantaneously, email intermittently and the older one will frequently like my status on Facebook, where we are "friends" (why is "friend" the only allowed facebook relationship, and why is...