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Archive for June, 2007



The Abbreviated Guide to PowerPoint

Published on June 27, 2007

Consultants are truly in love with their own bullshit, but there’s only one thing they love more: spewing all of this bullshit into a PowerPoint presentation, also known as a “Deck”, to share with their blind-sided clients. Given the common belief that a deck’s value is proportional to its size, the euphemism was almost certainly [...]


Hell on Earth: The In-Town Project

Published on June 12, 2007

Some of the worst words that a consultant can hear come out of a staffing managers mouth is, “you’re staffed in-town!” Staffing manager’s think this is a godsend because at night they go home to their kids in the suburbs. Their idea of a good weekend is taking their kids out to Chili’s and ordering [...]


Thanks For Doing Our Job and Letting Us Bill You Blind

Published on June 9, 2007

June 9, 2007
Dear Clients of GDiFC.com:
Hey, those shoes are quite sharp, do you mind if I ask where you found them?
It has come to our attention that you may be pushing back on recent cyclic production output patterns and/or rightsizing efforts experienced on GDiFC. As Jack teaches, let us be candid: the authors were experiencing [...]