Oct 8, 2009
The current economy’s recovery is looking seriously “jobless.” This is leading professionals to consider creating a consulting practice while they stay on the job-hunt. Some even plan to keep some consulting on the side once they are employed. There is no job security...
Oct 4, 2009
I evolved a new pricing model this year to handle my clients’ concerns about cash control and the troublesome economy: all you can eat consulting. This is a variation on value pricing: a defined set of offerings of expertise on a fixed-price retainer, committed for a...
Sep 17, 2009
[Y]ou are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last...
Sep 11, 2009
I remember the highs of the early days of the Internet Boom, when many of my clients were under 30. One of them – a visionary in his 20s – IPO’d his B2B company in 1998 – because part of his gift was the vision to anticipate the market early enough to...
Sep 9, 2009
Summary: the second in an intermittent series on lawyers and startups—this one on owning what you create. Basically, a written agreement must affirmatively assign rights of anything put to (digital or other) paper. This is the second in a series of posts about the...
Sep 4, 2009
How long are you working each week? How does it change when conditions change? Strangely, you would expect to work less during a recession and more when market conditions are booming. Not always so. During downturns, we often work more hours than when we are busy...
