Charge Heavily For What You Know …but give away what you do not know. Often I am in a situation where I am called to provide advice and a satisfactory outcome to a situation where the Client doesn’t have the time or expertise to complete a task. I happily do the work: in my opinion [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Creating a Market For Consultants
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- Apr
I am currently offering services that are in higher demand than the available offer. That is fortunate for me, as you might expect that the law of Offer and Demand will be in my favor. In reality the macroeconomics law helps – but only if you can put it in a macro economy. When you [...]
Life Settlements
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- Apr
Shawn Cornett spammed me the other day with the idea of “Life Settlements“. You see, some Spam comments are actually great – and I thank Shawn for it (and for that, the double link back to his website). These comments give me topics to write on my blog. I like them. Life Settlements are “financial transaction in [...]
CDC Says Smoking Hurts Productivity
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- Apr
“CDC: Smoking hurt productivity. Early deaths caused by smoking cost the nation about $92 billion in lost productivity from 1997 to 2001… Smoking reduces life expectancy an average of about 14 years by way of lung cancer, heart disease, and other illness….” Found in USA Today, Friday 1st of July 2005. Statistics are just that… [...]
Avoid Working for Your Moral Opposite
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- Apr
I once worked for Raytheon – a very big U.S. Defense contractor. They produce anything that goes boom or anything that helps find out where to blow things up. They also have a commercial branch but it exists only to keep them going in between big defense contracts. Yet, at that time many of my [...]
