Category: Author
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Modern Data Architecture – Part 2 – Resource Groups and Subscriptions
Modern Data Architecture – Part 2 – Resource Groups and Subscriptions Resource Groups in Azure are a mechanism of grouping a collection of services and assets in Azure together. Resource groups can assist in automatic provisioning, deprovisioning, monitoring, and access control as well as provide logical groupings for business processes, units or even environment. A…
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Introduction to Consulting – Free eBook Download
Get your Free eBook With all the interest I received for free copies of my book (Jack of All Trades Master of Some, An Introduction to Consulting) for anyone that was a student or unemployed, I’ve decided to make a new ebook available perma-free for download. “An Introduction to Consulting – A Primer” is a…
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Introduction to Consulting – Why People Hire Consultants. The Math.
Why People Hire Consultants. The Math. Consultants can usually run a rate of anywhere in the range of one hundred to two hundred dollars an hour. Some larger firms in the “Big Four” can charge up to six hundred dollars an hour for senior resources. Multiply that by the average of forty hours a week…
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Introduction to Consulting – Impostor Syndrome
As time passes and you get more experience under your belt, you will find yourself answering questions and leading meetings like you have been working in the client’s industry for decades. At this point, as you self-reflect on the flight back home, you may get hit with a feeling of anxiety known as impostor syndrome.…
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Book Review – Millionaire Success Habits By Dean Graziosi
I will admit when my dad handed me the book Millionaire Success Habits By Dean Graziosi, I had dismissed it pretty quickly and rolled my eyes at the book. I’ve always had a slight aversion to the idea of Life Coaches similar to the author or Tony Robbins. I never really felt that the idea…
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Consulting Key Phrases
Have you ever wondered what some of those Consulting Key Phrases like RFP, MSA, or SOW really mean? Well here is a quick break down. 50-thousand-foot view The 50-thousand-foot view of an item or process is when you take a step back and only look at the high-level aspects of it. Many people will get…
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Mindful Manager; Give me my crayons back! Why being creative outside work may help us at work.
When we enter kindergarten, we are given crayons and pencils and colorful paper and we are told to create. We are encouraged to imagine and experiment. By the time we enter high school, creative writing in English class is usually all that is left from mandatory art classes. By college, if you are not majoring…
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Book Review – Deep Work by Cal Newport. Improving Focus and Flow
Late last year a close mentor of mine recommended I read Deep Work by Cal Newport. As we ate lunch and I was complaining about feeling like I was always working yet not feeling like I was accomplishing anything or achieving flow. Even though I was always on top of my deliverables, there was an…
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An Introduction to Consulting Book!
A few years ago, as I reflected on my career, I decided to begin documenting some of my stories and lessons learned to share on a blog. This exercise quickly turned into pages of An Introduction to Consulting Book. After fourteen years in Consulting which landed me on over twenty projects, across several different industries…
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The Solar System A Children’s Educational Book and Lesson’s Learned Self Publishing
As my first book on an introduction to consulting get’s edited, I wanted to try my hand at writing and illustrating a children’s book which can now be found here. The experience was quite entertaining and very educational. Self-publishing allowed me to be extra creative and allowed me to get a good first book out…