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Bulldust, Business

How to Know When a Situation is Bulldust-adjacent vs. Totally Dipped in It Pt. 2

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(I should have called this “Part IV,” since it’s being written several months later, but a few things have happened at work since then) My previous installment on Bulldust-adjacency didn’t accomplish much, except to establish a blinding flash of the obvious about consulting work, which is that far too much of it runs to low-effort […]

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Management

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The mistaken belief that you can control everything that happens, without understanding any of it, by creating more process. Leadership The (sometimes) mistaken belief that you can fundamentally change a situation by digging deeper into what you’re trying to do. I’m starting an MBA at the University of North Alabama. And one of my first

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A blinding flash of the obvious

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My first experience with consulting was when I hired a consultant for my small family business. We’ll call him Bob, because that was actually his name. Bob helped me a lot. As a semi-retired banker, he worked with me for about $500 a month (this was over a decade ago, so don’t draw any conclusions

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How to not increase the spread of bulldust

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If you experience miasma from reading LinkedIn or other social media, or for that matter at trade shows or networking events, you may be experiencing bulldust. I started discussing this in a low-key, highly interrupted way last year on this blog, but it’s been difficult. I’m not as big an expert on this subject as

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How to Know When a Situation is Bulldust-adjacent vs. Totally Dipped in It Pt. 1

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In a previous post I mused about the nature of bulldust and promised to develop a few ideas along these lines. I was beginning to think that promise may have also been bulldust, but I managed to get ahead of life long enough to think about one of my topics: when situations are bulldust-adjacent vs.

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Dark Patterns in BS (or Bulldust, if you Prefer)

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Let’s get this out of the way first. Due to my Bible-Belt raising and some other philosophical commitments, I have a reservation about spelling the word represented as “BS” out. I will readily admit, however, that it’s hard to find a substitute. This guy has put a lot of thought into that very topic. By

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