Ancient + magician + illumniati + freemason = consultant expert advisor

Weeknotes for 2024W02

weeknotes
2024
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Published

13 January 2024

Reading

Interesting business reading this week:

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Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors by David C. Baker (Amazon paid link: UK | US).

This is for successful consultants expert advisors who want to want to up their game. So, if you are already earning, say, £200k annually from your direct fees and you want to get to around £1M in own fees, then this one is for you.

Alternatively, another reason this book may not be for you (yet): Why are you still providing references to sceptical buyers instead of asking them for references to ensure they work well with an expert advisor?

Recognise where you are in your journey as a consultant.

Some points I found interesting on this reading:

Really enjoyed Tell Better Stories by Jeremy Connell-Waite | Business Storytelling - this is a tremendously useful compilation of valuable, proven, often classic, resources for story telling. Organization is helpful. Go there, and study. Warning: moderately deep rabbit hole. 🐇

Interesting tech reading this week:

Looked at DevOps for Data Science and liked what I saw. I think this should be required reading for everyone in my team.

What I am reading now:

Scaling People - Tactics for management and company building by Claire Hughes Johnson. Stripe Press


Until next week: Travel well, whichever road you are on 👋.

Footnotes

  1. Deliberate not capitalised because I use ‘freemasons’ as a generic shorthand for ‘secret societies providing access to exclusive networks’ which I think is the popular view of Freemasons.↩︎