My wife Leslie and I walked into a neighborhood coffee shop in New York, Juan Valdez. The coffee’s not bad, but you have to read a description of all the farmers they didn’t exploit to get it to you. As I ordered, the gentleman serving asked what size I wanted. I was flummoxed. “What is [...]
Consultants are prone to obfuscate. Around the world today, this is lethal to business success. Now more than ever is a time to get to the point — a point of value to your client needless to say.
During these days of draconian and often unthinking cost-cutting measures, consultants have to sharpen their wits, raise their [...]
With all the sound and fury in Washington about the stimulus package, here are some simple things that could be done to align us all to deliver the real results we need. And these work for companies as well as countries!
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Last night my wife Leslie and I, along with two friends, attended one in a series of ‘Vintage Dinners’ organized by the Zagat guides — this one held at New York’s legendary French restaurant, Daniel. Daniel Boulud was the chef at Le Cirque in its glory days, and now parlays his brand of culinary wizardry [...]
Last night I attended a Chinese New Year ‘feast’ that was well concieved and executed at Shun Lee West in New York. Alas the table was so tightly packed that it required several contortions per dish to make sure the morsels ended up in my mouth rather than my lap. The table congestion was very [...]
I’m happy to be contributing to Omar’s blog, especially and appropriately since I’m writing from Dublin. On Sunday morning the limo driver told me it never snows in Dublin, and on Monday morning it snowed. He was right for 24 hours, barely.
A great many clients are right for 24 hours or less, as well. They [...]
I returned home yesterday, after three weeks between Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok and London. We left London on a relatively balmy day and landed in New York on a dazzlingly sunny day, with what seemed like almost spring weather.
A few hours later London was deluged in snow, more snow than any time in the last 14 [...]
