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Commando Consulting: May 2009 - Are You Ready to Get Tough on Your Consulting Firm? Part 1
By Tom "Bald Dog" Varjan
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Summary: We all know that business problems are really the escalations of personal issues. Also, business results are impacted by soft components like accountability, commitment and discipline. And when we beef these components up, we see better results...
Read the full article of Are You Ready to Get Tough on Your Consulting Firm? Part 1 on EzineArticles.com.
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Recommended Reading
Leadership
The Inner Side of Greatness, A Philosophy for Leaders
By Peter Koestenbaum
This is a book a Boeing executive recommended to me sometime in 1999. So, I went to Amazon and ordered a copy. And ever since, this has been one of the best books I've ever read on leadership.
Most leadership books are about organisational leadership, but they often miss one big element: Self-leadership. How we lead our own lives and how we can become role models for the people we're supposed to lead.
And this is where this book, using the Leadership Diamond, does such an amazing job. Instead of preaching people who they should follow their leaders, the author writes about how to become worthy of following.
He touches upon four key areas...
- Vision - to enable and empower strategic thinking
- Courage - to awaken our mental and emotional fortitudes to do what has to be done
- Reality - to be able to face and deal with the facts
- Ethics - to give us a morale envelope in which we can wrap everything we do
There are two parallel paths throughout the book: 1) Greatness: A lifetime quest for living up to our full potential and 2) Free Will: We are free to choose between several options in life.
Place your order with Amazon.com for Leadership. You'll be glad you did.
Copyright 1997-2010 Tom "Bald Dog" Varjan. All rights reserved. You are free to use this article in whole or in part. One favour though: Can I ask you to you include complete attribution, including a live website link. Also, can you please let me know where you plan to publish the article.
The attribution: This article was written by Organisational Provocateur, Tom "Bald Dog" Varjan of Dynamic Innovations Squad, a firm specialising in helping consulting firms to sell their expertise at the highest margins. Get Tom's free Practice Management Black Paper when you sign up for his monthly newsletter, Commando Consulting: Lessons And Practices From The Ultimate Professional Service Firm, The Military. Visit Tom's website at http://www.di-squad.com.
Copyright 1997-2010 Tom "Bald Dog" Varjan & Dynamic Innovations Squad, All rights reserved. Vancouver, BC, Canada
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