Due to the nature of my profession, I have visited the premises of countless clients. In many cases I didn’t just visit for meetings, but I also spent time there in order to do work that couldn’t get done remotely, without compromising efficiency and effectiveness. It has happened many times (in the minority of cases Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #61: Premises matter[…]

Is it just me, or have people’s views gotten stronger and stronger over the past decade or so? Perhaps things have always been this way, but the advent of social media has made it more evident than before: When people argue nowadays (say, about politics), this doesn’t take place in the middle of a town Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #60: Bubble trouble[…]

I received an offer for professional services by a multinational company – one of the 10 biggest globally in its field in terms of turnover. Here are the main terms of their proposal: My company will be charged on a time spent basis; On top of the above a 3% charge will be added to Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #59: Time and expenses[…]

I have mentioned multiple times in the past how my way of working has been influenced by best practices most commonly encountered (and to a large extent developed) in the IT industry. (That being said the same industry is responsible for some of the most unethical ways of making money in my view, which isn’t Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #58: Rollback[…]

We live in a world that whenever we have a question, we can have the answer within minutes. We just “google” stuff. Except when our question doesn’t have an objective (e.g. 2 + 2 will always equal to 4) answer. Then, as expected, we may get different answers for the same question. What happens then? Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #57: Brilliant, or clueless?[…]

Those of you who follow my posts with relative frequency will surely be aware that I am not a really big fan of remote working. I believe it reduces employee productivity so much, that it may not worth the savings that a company may make by not having to cater for its people.The main reason Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #56: Real estate and remote working[…]

You’ve never heard of such a thing before, have you? And why would you, after all? The word “down” after the word “managing” is clearly a pleonasm, which would indicate an inability to use language properly from the part of the speaker / writer. But are managers really managing down? Because what typically happens in Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #54: Managing down[…]

It’s an old axiom in the consulting business that risk assessment is one of the most (if not the most) important part of decision-making. Ironically, 99% of the clients I have worked with, start their decision-making process, with a financial analysis. Finances are undoubtably important, but they come second in my book in decision-making analyses, Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #53: The decision-making process[…]

Remote working is “the way of the future”, “an inevitability”, “preferred by employers and employees alike”, blah, blah, blah. But why? I have worked with many different clients over the course of my career: From large multinationals, to SMEs that I didn’t even know existed. Some surprised me negatively, some positively. One of the worst Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #53: Remote working? Meh…[…]