tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096083296053498847.post7912039174189224975..comments2024-03-15T13:52:29.329-05:00Comments on This Side of Fifty: February 2013: Ninth Anniversary LetterMark Gavoorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14718162397767006618noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096083296053498847.post-66195765588117467862013-02-22T23:54:03.505-06:002013-02-22T23:54:03.505-06:00Mike, Thanks for sharing this. It is great stuff. ...Mike, Thanks for sharing this. It is great stuff. I like your quote:<br />3. Consultants are often accused of borrowing their client’s watches to tell them the time. That may or may not be true. When it comes to preparing the kinds of business documents mentioned in #2, it is absolutely true. <br /><br />Nice quote, but the clients who let the consultant borrow their watch are those who cannot tell the time themselves of don't have the time to do it (pun intended), otherwise they would not hire a consultant and would save themselves a lot of money by just looking at their watches themselves...<br />So thank God not everyone knows what they are doing, or at least all of what they are doing, otherwise consultants, freelancers and service providers would be out of business. <br />BTW I knew Aram Kevorkian very well and miss him dearly. I remember many an afternoon spent in his 'oval office' (literally) in Paris, with him typing away on his computer and me thinking I was doing a monologue to deaf ears, then being totally surprised by such a pertinent question from him, that I would know that not only he had been listening attentively to what I had been blabbing on about, but he had mentally analysed it and was asking the right question to bringe a gap in my story.<br />What a remarkable person! A mentor who I dearly miss.<br /><br />Keep on writing. It is the only way you can chisel it into something once it is on the page...I am telling this to myself as I type it now...More soon...<br />noraNora Armani Videoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14728371591677615546noreply@blogger.com