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Title: How to Make Knowledge Work Fun

Competencies: career planning, managing yourself

Who benefits: consultants or consultant wannabes

Consultant Usage: how to pick clients; your Google business card

What’s it about? I had loads of fun writing today’s posting.  Know why?  Cuz I know how to pick my clients!

Author and professor Larry Stybel has a short post on his Blog about knowledge workers becoming consultants.  His comments are dead on and straight forward. 

It is one of those articles that you read and at the end you are thinking “I knew that”.  Yet he says it in such a refreshing way you want to go back and read it again.  (The article is about a 90 second read, so even if you are not a consultant, read it anyway.  You will discover why you are likely to become a consultant and some important first steps in your soon-to-be new career.)

His description of the four different modes in the professional life of the independent knowledge worker: insanity, give-back, work, and fun, made me chuckle.  I had received an email on this exact topic from a colleague just last week (thank you S.W.).   As simple as the four definitions are, it is easy to overlook their importance.  All consultants should consider having these four sentences framed and mounted next to their telephone or entered as a screen saver on their computer.

While this article had a comfortable familiarity to it, the author’s reference to another Blog about Google business cards was brand new to me.  Of course I am an old fogy – old enough to know that Remington was not only a rifle, but also a shaver and a typewriter.  (If you don’t know what a typewriter is, it was a primitive form of a keyboard.)

Gina Trapani writes in her Work Smart Blog about Google business cards – your profile set to come up on the first page of any Google search involving your name.  What consultant wouldn’t want that?

I am not too old to recognize a great idea when I see one.  I am ending this post right here and right now so I can get started with my Google Profile.  

Catch you later.  

 
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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.