There’s a joke that takes a long time to tell, and I won’t. But at the end of the story, the man asks the shepherd, “How did you know I was a consultant?” The shepherd glances over at his flock of sheep and says, “You drove up out of nowhere, stopped me from getting my work done, told me something I already knew and then charged me for it. Now give me back my dog.”
Beware consultants bearing shiny words
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At the starting line
“Dear Stan:
“I’m a twenty-six year-old woman with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and a love of art, music, and writing. I’ve been living in San Francisco for seven months with my fiancée, a tech savvy nerd with a Bachelor’s in Applied Computer Graphics. We are both intelligent, creative, innovative, responsible, and willing to work hard to get where we want to be in our lives. So, why is it that he is out of a job and I’m still working coffee shops?
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The head shed
My first foray into Corporate Land was in 1979. Up to that point, my most prestigious position was supervising college boys and native Inuit in an Alaskan salmon processing plant.
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Relationship financing
Small businesses have historically contributed a stable 50% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), which is the sum total of goods and services provided by U.S. companies from domestic locations. These statistics are tracked and analyzed over the years by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). “Small” is defined as a company with 500 employees or less, and the data cover 16 industries in non-farm sectors.
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