consulting

  • Do You Leave Time on the Table?

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    How long does it take you to complete a project?  When you bid for 1 hour of work, does that actually comprise 1 hours of head’s-down labor, or one hour of total focus on the project?  Do you go home at the end of the day and stop working, or do the wheels keep turning

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  • The Accidental Consultant

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    A couple of summers ago, I found myself in the small office of a tech start-up asking questions about my ambitions as a consultant.  I had finished business school almost a year before, but my age still betrayed my actual skills as a marketer and started these kinds of questions with just about everyone I

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  • Pay Time

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    At a sales training seminar a couple weeks ago, the presenter spoke on the topic of separating pay time from no pay time.  I was very familiar with this concept, but not in quite the way he put it.  All of us recognize the importance of tracking billable versus non-billable hours, but “pay time” doesn’t

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