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Does Your Consultant Stack Up?
Real Consultants vs. Wanna-Be's

The joke goes something like this: What's a Consultant? It's someone who can't get a real job and carries a briefcase!

Or, it's someone in transition, i.e., just laid off and in between jobs.

For those of us who are "real" consultants (and we will define that for you), the jokes are particularly bad because, as we endeavor to provide value-added services to our clients, our clients don't understand the difference between the Real McCoy and the Wannabe Clan. <more...>

7 Deadly Sins of Project Management
It has been reported in several articles that the next wave of C-level executives will be former or current project managers. Without much qualification, we can assume that they are the successful project managers. The premises for such a claim is that successful project managers know how to manage a budget, get things done, negotiate solutions, navigate the political waters, solve problems with a single bound, and resolve the daily conflicts that make up their every day world. Successful project managers also know how to not commit one of the Seven Deadly Sins of project management, thus avoiding the sabotage of their projects and helping them claim one of the few C-level offices. <more...>