When I was traveling, I used to love Delta when they offered free movies as I was flying across the country. I could watch 3 in a row – although sometimes that last one would end right at the best part and it would suck because I would always wonder what happened. (Curse you Harry Potter movies!) Anyway, one of the movies that I watched was with Denzel Washington called Unstoppable. It’s about a runaway train that was basically a bomb and the experienced train engineer (Denzel) with his young protégé saved the day by diverting the train out of imminent danger saving many lives in the process. I’ve been on a lot of projects that are analogous to a moving freight train. As a consultant, they say you wouldn’t be at a client if that moving freight train was always a nice, smooth, and easy ride. It’s the job of a consultant to become Denzel and get that train on the right track. What I’ve come to find out is that there are times where you just can’t be Denzel. Sometimes,...
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