Speed.  Disruption.  Innovation.   Not Duty.  Not Deliberation.   Not Honor.  Tech let us reordered our virtues.   Policy, if taken thoughtfully, makes us examine that reordering.   It may not solve anything but it makes us wonder if we’re doing things...

Money isn’t everything  Ideas are surprisingly important But people carry the ideas. And promote the ideas. And analyze, and dispute, and contradict, and accep,t and reject, and all the rest of the things that you do with ideas. In the process,

Only rarely do you see the big picture.   Most of the time, it is a nightmare.   15,000 people.  Running through the tunnel that lie beneath the US Capitol.  The share information, cut deals, plan strategies,

The end. It’s never quite what you expect. In part, it’s really a beginning, though the beginning may not include you. So we get only a hint of how the story will progress.  A family has been reconciled.  One troublesome employee has moved to the compe...

A bad decision. A confrontational meeting. Perhaps the worst first date ever, though one participant (and perhaps both) will deny that it was, is, or should ever be considered a date. A niece coming from a conference on Electronic Dance Music.

Can things be going well when you have to schedule a meeting with your attorney and her baby? The team is gathering data, observing the client, makings and learning that there are a lot of things that it doesn’t know. For example,

We arrive in Hamburg. Port City.  International City. World Headquarters of Coffee Logistics. Things start poorly for the team.  They are tired.  One of there number is perhaps a little drunk.  There are some extra requirements and a dynamic that doesn...

Outside Tech meets Inside Politics. That’s the story. If you understand what it means, you can quit right here. But you’ll miss the story.  And the lesson. With this episode, we start the complete presentation of our recent series on tech consulting.

They don’t talk. They don’t write. They don’t really like dealing with each other. Yet, they need each other, need each other in a fundamental, all consuming way.   We’re talking about Tech and Government, in case there was any question.

It never ends well. It really can’t There is an organization to renew. There are new tasks, new demands, new technology to install, new procedures to develop. So what do you get when a tech consulting job ends?  You’re supposed to get a new company,