Category Archives: Consulting Excellence

For the most part I write this blog to assist consultants to achieve the highest standards and best results possible in their profession. However I also feel great empathy for clients who accidentally engage a predatory consulting firm and even … Continue reading →

Maureen (Mo) Hutchinson-Parker and John Parker are the proprietors of the Northern Lights motel in Wawa Ontario. I met Mo and John in 2000 when I started a  snowmobile adventure tour company (as a hobby…it’s a long story) and selected … Continue reading →

One of the main reasons that client’s engage us is our knowledge and expertise in a subject matter area. We may perform brilliantly and complete the assigned work and yet the client may feel the work is not truly complete … Continue reading →

  The longest project I participated in was 4.5 years long. I started on the project a number of months after it was initiated and led the project team for the next 3.5 years.  In 3.5 years a lot of … Continue reading →

Have you ever spent time with a new puppy? Throw it a ball and it will chase it instinctively. Throw a different ball now and  it will lose interest in the first and chase the second. You can amuse yourself … Continue reading →

I was asked by an attendee last week after giving a “What you need to know about OO on this project” presentation what I would recommend they read as deeper study. Once I regained my composure, (after being challenged with … Continue reading →

  In my blog Negotiating the Curve I talked about three basic techniques for framing a negotiation: contrast risk time But what actually makes a good negotiator? Let’s ask the one of the world’s best negotiators what he thinks. Herb … Continue reading →

Last week’s Lottomax draw in Canada had a $50 million prize. For a $5 ticket you had a 1 in 28 million chance of winning the grand prize. Yet someone did. I have been on projects where: the regression test … Continue reading →

The tips, techniques and advice of this blog are all directed at developing consulting excellence. However, you won’t win them all. There are and have been some truly extraordinary business leaders and consultants in the world, that have accomplished feats … Continue reading →

There was a Scottish preacher named  George B. Duncan from whom I had heard a sermon recorded back in the 1970’s somewhere. It was one of those things that you read, you hear or you see at various points in … Continue reading →