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My Week in Consulting
If consulting is ambigous and messy, inside a single week, how do you stay steady enough to do good work and enjoy it?
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3 Chat-GPT scripts to find your consulting strength
Ever wonder why some work gives you momentum, some meetings stay with you for days, and some client moments make you feel genuinely powerful? These three ChatGPT scripts help you decode the pattern and use it to grow as a consultant.
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No Room for “Jacket on the Chair” Ethics: Consulting Won’t Recover Without Real Integrity
A reflection on consulting ethics that looks beyond scandals to the everyday decisions that define credibility, culture and the kind of professional you want to become.
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The Hard Realisation About Utilisation That No One Tells You
Many consultants mistake high utilisation for career security. It is not! When the chips are down, firms don't value what you have done. They value the relationships you have built.
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ChatGPT Performance Review Simulation
A ChatGPT super script to gamify and simulate your next performance review to improve how you show up at the real one.
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Finding Your Consulting Superpower: 10 Ways to Uncover Your Unfair Advantage
In a world where AI and templates are swallowing the middle, being vanilla is a fast track to irrelevance. Your instincts, quirks and eccentric Éclat aren’t flaws; they’re what make you, you
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You were made redundant. Now what?
Im so sorry you were made redundant, but here are some tips to get back on your feet again.
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Spot your common consulting bias
The smartest consultants aren’t the ones who are right the most. They’re the ones who notice when they’re wrong the fastest. Spot these biases fast, before they undo your deliverable
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Specialist or Generalist? (Spoiler: The Market Doesn’t Care)
My old career advice was simple: go wide before you go deep. But consulting has changed, and so has my view.
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The Quiet Power of Community: The Most Underrated C in Consulting
Community is the most overlooked C in 4 Cs of Consulting—The one that rarely shouts for attention, but quietly sustains us in ways we don’t always see. This is a call to act: Consultants using their resources and craft to make a real-world difference.
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So, You Found Yourself on the Bench
The bench isn’t career purgatory, it’s consulting’s most honest mirror—and your biggest accelerator if you use it right. Off the field is where you sharpen skills, build relationships, and create IP. Play offence across the 4 Cs—Consultant, Clients, Colleagues, Community—and you’ll be first pick.
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Crack the Code - The 4 Cs of Consulting
Crack the code of consulting. Let one of the 4Cs of Consulting dominate, and you risk burnout, boredom, or becoming that consultant everyone avoids. Nurture them all, even if it is hard, and your career will flourish.