Alan Culler Blog

Consulting is a time-based business. · Sure, there are always firms that try to break this mold with products like surveys, or packaged research. And there are some firms that experiment with gain sharing, a percentage of revenue increased or costs saved. In my experience, that c ...

Thanksgiving: US Style · Many cultures have days of gratitude. Some are somber and religious; others are tied to the bounty of the year’s harvest. Some are flexed according to lunar calendars; some are on a fixed day. In the United States of America, Thanksgiving Day, T-day, Turk ...

New Year’s celebrations that are part of religions are celebrated at a time that makes sense for that religion and culture. · These celebrations are reflective and may or may not include a tradition of resolutions. · If there is a resolution tradition, however, it is conscientiou ...

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A fun and fascinating read on early psychedelic research · “My book about Tim is up on Amazon. I hope you’ll read it and if you like it tell some other people about it. He was an important person in my life and it was an important time. Psychedelics took on a different meaning la ...

Janus, the two-faced god of gateways, beginnings and transitions was often found above the Roman villa lintel, a blessing on all those who entered and departed. Julius Caesar made Janus the symbol of the New Year in 46 B.C.E. when he instituted the Julian calendar and named the f ...

https://www.freeimages.com/photo/candles-1161780 @korionovThe cold sun sets earlier and rises later each day. Daylight hours are sparse and the night is long and frigid. The green has long departed from the hardwood leaves which now brown-rustle and skitter around the doorway in ...

I had been an aspiring actor, waiting tables and diving a taxi for a couple of years. Then I decided to become a booking agent for speakers like Dick Gregory, Erica Jong and H. Ross Perot for nine years. Then I went to business school · to become a management consultant. · I lik ...

“What problem are we trying to solve?” is a question that can be delivered dripping with withering Middle School English teacher sarcasm, communicating the message that “the status quo is just fine, thank you very much.” Or it can be delivered gently, inquisitively, encouraging p ...

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” · Claude Levi-Strauss · I have written elsewhere of my view that the goal of leadership is attract followers to go in the direction you are leading and that the secret of leadership is the art of aski ...