Blog: what you don’t know you know
On September 22nd
My colleague Kenneth Eisold has a blog.
Posts about Consulting
Chef Gordon Ramsay: organizational psychologist
On September 6th
Here I confess one of my junk-food type indulgences. I’ve enjoyed the “reality” show featuring Chef Gordon Ramsay. Not the silly competition one — the one where he visits a restaurant in trouble and turns it around.
Never mind the foul-mouthed tough-guy persona. I’m impressed with how the show presents a case study in consultation. In each episode, the case is presented of a foundering restaurant. The consultant comes in and makes a rapid assessment. There is a tense meeting where he presents his diagnosis and treatment plan. He encounters resistance and overcomes it, and there is a happy ending (usually). Read more »
100 day plan with Group 8020 (further ruminations)
On August 2nd
This is the interesting part for me: Where there’s this wonderful interplay of content and process.
Part of the project is to understand, as a participant-observer, what’s so effective about Mark’s 100-day plan. It will necessitate my being relatively transparent about my experience, in blog form, which definitely is out of my comfort zone. There’s a wonderful freeing humility in saying “I can’t do this by myself”. There are many threads to this.
Because Mark is a consultant as well and I’ll have the experience from the perspective of the client, it’ll help me understand more about how to offer my value to the people & organizations to whom I want to make myself useful. Read more »
