Rolling Off a Project

How consultants leave projects gracefully while protecting client trust and career capital.

Stop Reading Your Slides

Eight tips free presenters from their decks and restore the storytelling.

How Consultants Research Industries

Seven repeatable steps take an analyst from zero to conversant fast.

Visualize What You Mean

Process, stage-gate, org design, sequencing, gap and bucket slides tell the story.

Change Needs Head, Heart, Hands

Logic alone rarely moves an organization; motivation and mechanics must follow.

Implementation Takes Guts

Strategy without implementation is just a shelf ornament. Real change requires courage.

Richard Thaler Nudge Nobel

Richard Thaler won the economics Nobel for revealing how defaults drive human choices.

Company Analysis in One Hour

How to get smart on an unfamiliar company fast, demonstrated with Agilent.

The Death of Expertise

Hubris, noise and filter bubbles erode respect for expertise. Consultants must counter it.

Hypothesis-Based Consulting

Consultants break ambiguous problems by treating answers as suspects to test.

The Consulting Diaspora

Consultants scatter into every industry yet keep a shared language and culture.

What Consultants Actually Do

Consultants help executives decide and change through strategy, culture and operations.