Category: Business development

Do you face a challenge concentrating and focusing on your work? Do you get distracted by phone calls, emails, text messages and people knocking on your door? I assume we all face these challenges. Books have been written about how to effectively deal with them. Still we struggle to...

“Outdoor” is one of the few analog advertisement channels that have survived the digital tsunami. Traditional analog advertising has lost terrain simply because consumers and businesses spend less and less time reading newspapers and magazines and watching broadcast television. When readers and viewers walk away so does the advertisement...

If everything is running according to schedule, you are ahead of your budgets, you are winning market share, you can find all the top qualified people you need, your margins are improving, your net profit is increasing, your customer satisfaction is increasing, your employee satisfaction is increasing and your...

This is the 10th post in a series of posts addressing the issue that too many independent management consultants are working too many hours for too little pay. See the end of this post for a summary and a list of subjects in the series. This post is about negotiating...

This is the 9th post in a series of posts addressing the issue that too many independent management consultants are working too many hours for too little pay. See the end of this post for a summary and a list of subjects in the series. This post is about...

This is the 7th post in a series of posts addressing the issue that too many independent management consultants are working too many hours for too little pay. See the end of this post for a summary. This post is about defining what you will deliver during your management...

This is the 6th post in a series of post addressing the issue that too many independent management consultants are working too many hours for too little pay. It is my objective to inspire as many independent management consultants as possible to exercise their profession and approach their clients...

I wish all my readers a happy New Year. May 2012 fulfill your ambitions and bring joy, happiness, fun and prosperity to you and those you care about. This blog grew its’ readership from 20.000 visits in 2010 to almost 86.000 visits in 2011. In December 2011 we had...

I meet and talk with a lot of independent management consultants.  99% of them are extremely busy.  They are so busy that they have little time to learn new approaches, keep up with the development in their area(s) and develop their business. Most of them even complain that they...

I meet and talk with a lot of independent management consultants.  99% of them are extremely busy.  They are so busy that they have little time to learn new approaches, keep up with the development in their area(s) and develop their business. Most of them even complain that they...