What to do with insubordinate subordinates

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So here are our six lessons learned, or six reasons a consulting project is likely to fail, or six thing to avoid when embarking on a consulting project: whatever terminology works for you.

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The difference between a “contractor” and “consultant” has become utterly clear to me over the past few months

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I am baking away the professional blues, having completed the contract with the client and having not been asked to extend it.  Same client I have suffered and written about in all recent posts and yet, perversely, I hate the fact that they have not extended with us – I would much rather have gotten [...]

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I know it should be obvious that output and outcome are not the same, but

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I am delighted to be able to write that I have recovered my usual bounce.  All feelings of failure have flitted out the window.  I would be  even more delighted to be able to say “never to return” but that is unrealistic and anyway success needs failure just like light needs the darkness.  I was [...]

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the confusion between leadership and control.

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I decided today that I would quit my project.  Yes, that is it.  Quit.  This is a bittersweet moment.  Sweet because I don’t want to work with this client in this role one moment more that I have to, and bitter because I have arrived at this moment through failure.  I have failed utterly to [...]

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Consult versus Tell: the fine leadership balance

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