Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

"As a solopreneur, does it matter how I get paid?” Here’s how I figured this out. Several years ago, as a solopreneur I did my taxes two ways using TurboTax software. Several years ago, as a solopreneur I did my taxes two ways using TurboTax software. I was stunned by the results. Why am I even writing about this?

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 31, 2022

Over a decade before I had three daughters, I was intrigued by women and how they’re perceived in the business world. I was stunned. It was back then that I came across research that demonstrated the power of male- versus female-sounding names. As a guy, this was not something I had thought much about until that time).

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Action Plan

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Something is wrong.” “I I should have taken more vitamins and I wouldn’t have cancer.” Here I am on the highway. Glad I have AAA!” “Hmm, Hmm, I guess it’s time to track my expenses more closely.” “Well, time to learn everything I can to combat this cancer.” Find a purpose and set meaningful goals.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I talked about this with Jason Fearnow in this interview. This is when I started working with Jason on his brand messaging and positioning. From the minute I met Jason, I knew we had to approach his brand messaging and positioning work with an eye towards thought leadership. I get to express what I'm passionate about.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Focus on Relationships That Matter. But this one took much longer than I expected. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. I was wrong!)

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 19, 2023

Here are several unsolicited offers I received in email and various messaging today: An unsolicited email explaining my site was slow and not high-ranking in SEO. All these unsolicited offers have one thing in common: They want to help me because I'm running my business “wrong.” These offers are wrong.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 26, 2024

I have cycled to start this story in a different place. The transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP for January 25, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. It was a Great Big Wrongness. If you have suggestions, let me know. But these odors together?

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Halo Psych

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

5 minute read First off, you might be wondering why I’ve put the word syndrome in apostrophes? I know, right?! For years, I also used the term ‘impostor syndrome’ but then when I started my doctoral studies, I came across the original 1978 research. It means we’re learning. His secret?

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Book a call with my partner Jen and I and let's chat. Which I know first-hand as she and I were roomies when we both moved to Orlando almost 30 years ago!). I am so excited to have my special guest here for this conversation who is my friend of over 30 years, I think by now. I’m so excited.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2020

"OMG - could anything else go wrong?". When consultant and trainer Christy Ogilvie's business dried up because of the pandemic, she flipped this question around and started to ask, "OMG - could I be doing anything else to make my business grow even stronger?" and got to work creating her first online course.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I first heard of the phrase “cascade of errors” from a friend of mine who was a private pilot. I often say that learning from mistakes is essential… but nowhere does it say that you’re restricted to learning only from your own mistakes.). For some reason, I found that concept fascinating. I was absolutely horrified.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 7, 2021

One of the reasons I enjoy traveling internationally is to see how other people do things. This was also one of the reasons I wanted to take my kids to travel outside of the United States. I wanted them to (hopefully) realize that just because they’ve only known one way of doing things doesn’t mean it’s the only way.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 7, 2021

One of the reasons I enjoy traveling internationally is to see how other people do things. This was also one of the reasons I wanted to take my kids to travel outside of the United States. I wanted them to (hopefully) realize that just because they’ve only known one way of doing things doesn’t mean it’s the only way.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ll never forget the moment the Disney team turned around the performance of the Animal Kingdom theme park. ” It’s not the original vision of making this park distinct from other theme park and Disney experiences was wrong. Just like Disney’s Animal Kingdom – it’s not that what I created was wrong.

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Alan Weiss

MARCH 16, 2021

I stopped in my hobby store here today to give the owner some business and to stock up. I asked what was wrong. I should have ordered more stock months ago.” I should have ordered more stock months ago.” I’ve told you all that you can surf this sucker of a wave or you can get crushed by it.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

At McKinsey, 90% of how I was perceived within the firm was based on 5% of the hours I worked (they occurred when I was presenting… and in particular, usually from just one slide in the whole deck). I learned to treasure the former and make repairs on the latter. People decisions involve: Who do I spend my time with?

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

What problem did you have that I helped you solve? She has bestowed a gift to the women of the world, an escape hatch from ending up in misery with the wrong man. And make them the introduction section on her services page of her website: I get your frustration with the best way to handle the change your company is facing.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Recently there was an ice storm here in Portland, Oregon, and I was trapped in the house with my kids for over a week. I started playing with some of the image generating features that you can do with AI, and I made each of my kids a custom coloring book, which was really fun.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 12, 2022

When I was in school, my strongest subjects were in STEM — science and math specifically. In high school, I was required to study history. In college, I was required to study philosophy or some other humanities subject. ” Well… I was wrong. Today, I don’t see history as the study of what happened in the past.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 1, 2022

At Stanford, the one class I disliked the most was called “Cultures, Ideas and Values.” At the time, I thought there was little value in studying these topics and especially in studying what happened around these topics hundreds and thousands of years ago. I was wrong. Human beings still have hopes, dreams, and fears.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2020

As a business mentor to aspiring consulting and coaching business owners, I deal with people who have been laid off all the time. I sit with their shame and fear as they find their courage to pursue the entrepreneurial dreams that the layoff simply accelerated. Here's the painful "zero" part of the story - I was practically at zero.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

I had a fantastic conversation with burnout expert Rachelle Stone and Lori Smith a few weeks back. I had a sense then I should open up about my struggle with burnout and what I learned from it, but then I chickened out. I went the safe route and did a couple of interviews with outstanding entrepreneurs.

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The Consultants Peer Group

AUGUST 15, 2023

It's like a game of Jenga, one wrong move and the whole tower comes tumbling down. The same goes for email threads, one wrong "REPLY ALL" and the whole thread becomes a never-ending game of ping-pong. Or am I just adding to the noise? Yikes, what just happened? Someone is likely to find fault with my math ….

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

It’s not easy to say, “I was wrong.” Instead of “I was wrong,” perhaps it’s useful (if less satisfying to others seeking victory) to say, “It’s time to make a new decision based on new information.” Our challenges in shifting perspective keep us stuck in the past.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the previous article , I introduced the concepts of boss and lead management, and it seems clear-cut that the latter is superior and preferable. In this article, I explore why managers might struggle to implement lead management and fall back into the bad habits of boss management. What’s wrong with him?”

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, I do have daughters in the same age range as these young women. In my (perhaps naive) mind, I think of the spirit of the Olympics as everyone skating their absolute best and seeing where the medals land. In moments like these, I don’t focus on the medal count. To be #1 out of 3.9 Where that line is will vary by person.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

However, at some point, you'll see an engagement that is wrong. It's wrong for the client. It's wrong for you. I see several options: Consider a conversation with the client to see if you can reframe the engagement. I try to start with a conversation to reframe the problem. (Yes, he did, and I explained.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. But this one took much longer than I expected. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 23, 2020

During university I had the opportunity to do five different 4-month co-ops (internships) in capital markets, management consulting, and strategy. Let me begin by saying that I was not a superstar intern. I made mistakes and always had room for improvement. I started out my internships not really thinking about the big picture.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2019

I have three teams working on experiments. Historically, people in one silo haven’t talked much to people in other silos, unless it’s to complain about something that’s gone wrong or to find out when something was going to get done. As you’d expect with the kata approach, some of the experiments have yielded good results.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

I was ranting and raving about how to help people see their confidence levels. I'll use his slides as inspiration when I walk through an example below. For example, I recommend (as a guideline) that teams limit their stories in progress to a reasonable number. (I I like one-day stories. I used days in this example.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

JUNE 19, 2018

It was Friday at 5:45 PM and I was driving in Baltimore’s rush hour traffic. I was on my way to Virginia to have dinner with a client before leading their strategy session the following morning. Not this again,” I thought. The alert had been sensitive during the winter cold, so I assumed it was the same issue again.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A mistake because: the subject line is wrong (you didn’t buy a gift card yesterday) it was sent Saturday night at 8 pm the formatting is off and it feels like a scam We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. Let everyone who got the wrong note know, even if it’s embarrassing. Thanks for understanding.”

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In several of those exercises, I had the opportunity to train in the role of incident commander (IC) and other leadership roles. I thought of myself as a logical, good decision-maker. I learned a few things about decision making in a crisis versus in everyday situations. In school, I learned that there was one right answer.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 14, 2021

Whenever you hear people speaking of the “imposter syndrome”, you will hear them say things like “I don’t belong”, “I am not worthy”, “did I make the right choice?”. I knew that although I had worked extremely diligently and consistently to land myself my dream job, I often felt inadequate.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I first heard of the phrase “cascade of errors” from a friend of mine who was a private pilot. I often say that learning from mistakes is essential… but nowhere does it say that you’re restricted to learning only from your own mistakes.). For some reason, I found that concept fascinating. I was absolutely horrified.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

On New Year’s Eve I was talking with a new business owner. I told him if he wasn’t nervous there would be something wrong with him as it is a huge step. Then I said: “Don’t overthink it. He closed his deal and takes over operations on January 3. His response was an indifferent, “OK.:

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