David Nyeste

Tue Gutes und dir wird Gutes wiederfahren: Das Prinzip Charma Obwohl ich relativ früh aus der (katholischen) Kirche ausgetreten bin, bin ich dennoch fest davon überzeugt, dass es eine höhere Macht oder Ordnung oder etwas Dergleichen gibt, die in allem steckt, das existiert. Wer das erste Mal in die Augen der eigenen Kinder schaut, sieht Gott. Ich bin zwar fromal ohne Bekenntnis und dennoch gewisserm assen gläubig. Ich glaube an Gesetzmässigkeiten, z.B. Charma. Als ich etwa 16 war, hatte ich ein prägendes Erlebnis mit einem Flutschfinger Eis; danke Bettina T.! D as jedoch ist eine andere Geschichte. Jedenfalls ist mir vor kurzem wieder etwas passiert, was meine Überzeugung vom Prinzip Charma erne ut gestärkt hat. Ohne weitere n Palaver , hier der ganze Vorfall:

Drága Nagymama, Közöttünk 1268km van. Mivel nagyon messze vagy, sajnos nem tudok neked személyesen gratulálni a születésnapodra. Már néhány éve nem voltam Magyarországon és így nem volt lehetöségem téged meglátogatni. Sok minden történt, mióta útóljára találkoztunk. A lányal, akivel útóljára meglátogattalak, összeköltöztünk és összeházasodtunk. Már két kis gyerekünk is van, akikkel én magyarul beszélek. Megértenek mindent, néha ezt azt magyarul is mondják , de persze ritkán fognak szót. Kis ördögök és kis angyalok. Például tegnap elött, amikor megkérdtezem öket, hogy szeretnének e fagyit enni, akkor azonnal igennel válaszol t ak, ahol fagylaltot még sose ettek. Azellen ha fogmosásra hívom öket, azonnal szaladnak a francba, pedig fogmosás mindennapi rend. Te három gyereket neveltél fel. Kíváncsi vagyok, milyen tanácsot adnál nekem most. Nem tudom, mikor foglak legközelebb meglátogatni. Nem tudom, hogy fogom e vinni a kis családomat, ha legközelebb meglátogatlak. De remélem

The Grand Final of awesomeness has at last arrived: the final five tips to a happier life are on the table. Is my inner most really always happy? And if yes, why am I not happy myself all the time? Are people born happy is happiness rather a temporarily achievement, maybe even an illusion we chase, like the end of a rainbow? Getting a little philosophical here. Let's leave this open for now and move on to more pressing issues, shall we? As a consultant you will actually literally 'each day (yes; and yes, even then) give (your results are sold for top money) something good (value) to others (your client)'. There will be rare occasions, when you don't really have tight deadlines or any urgent deliverables pending on your input. Use those rare opportunities wisely and enjoy these moments of calm. These moments will be rare and they will not last long. I might be able to think of a few areas, where that proposition is contraproductive. Competitiv

The importance of being 'to the point'   We are on the finish line of our little tutorial of how to improve your consulting skills. This time the focus will be on saying as little as possible and at the same time creating the most value for your customer. Note that this is an imperative to exclusion. Since you will find that in life the majority of things are not worth your precious resources (time/passion/money etc.), I guess an advice to include the most valuable things would be more of a boon, e.g. 'Focus on what is (truly) valuable.' However you will certainly agree, that this is not always easily achieved. The value you actually aprecciate often comes with downsides. Sadly life of adults often is about compromise. Your favorite food is not available at work, so you choose 'the best there is', you would like to travel to far away places, but can't afford it because of time/budget/other restrictions, so you stay within your restrictions, your d

It has been a while since the last post. Even consultants need vacation. That's the time when they usually get sick. But let's not diverge and get serious right away. Comparing lives does not sound particularly beneficial. First of all, focusing on the past is not the way to go on the path to achievement. Second, comparing 'lives' is complicated, because you have to gather a lot of information. Most of that information will be private, so probably most of the time you will not have sufficient data or any clue at all. This will lead you -most of the time- to bad assumptions.  However you can -and should- compare achievements. This is what people do all the time. Take a public 10k run. Most participants will be there for the fun, a lot of participants will be quite competitive and some will even put in all they can in order to achieve a good or even top result. That does not necessarily mean, they compete against each other. Sometimes beating yourself, setting

Welcome back everybody. Here we go again with the series 'How to not suck at consulting'. It has been a while since my last post, but things are running a little crazy at the moment for me.   May has traditionally lots of legal holidays, so it is supposed to be a pleasure from a worker's point of view. If you have multiple projects running simultaniously, the circumstances can differ slightly. It's all about deliverables and delivering. Customers seem to care little about the difference between working days and calendar days. However there's nothing more pathetic than a consultant or even a manager complaining about excess workloads. So let's get to the point.   Well, yes and no. Yes, meaning you should care about the food you eat and how much of it you eat. Basically, food and nutrition are crucial. And no, food is one piece of the puzzle, but the whole picture is your health. So you should eat whatever nourishes your heath. In consulting, tha

Welcome back, and without further ado here we go, how to avoid gruesome consulting. First of all, I'd like to state 3 general rules of consulting: 1. Create value - Ask yourself, what benefits your customer most. 2. Make a point - After all analysis and evaluation, put your findings in few comprehensive points. Pick the most crucial ones (A-issues) and drop the rest - yes, just cut it out. 3. Enjoy - most of the time, you'll love what you're doing. That is the easy part, because fo lks tend to be best at things the y enjoy and are passionate about. But once in a while, you won't en joy everything . Be a professional: Embrace the suck! It's part of consulting . :-D And now, back to the game: 40 tips of how not to suck at consulting. First one is a good point relate d to customers. Your customers are not only the ones you can bill. Your customers are all people that have expectations tow ards you. Your consultants expect you to be a good manager and

Alles! In diesem Sinne: Pervers, verlaust und zoophil / Recep Fritzl Priklopil Der Kurden tritt und Christen haut / dabei stets Kinderpornos schaut. Oh Recep bist kein Freund der Menschen / im Kern der türkische Charles Manson Voll Niedertracht, voll nackter Angst / Wo kommt’s nur her? Ein kleiner Schwanz? Ein Minderwertigkeitskomplex? Statt echter Liebe Ziegen-Sex? Bist einsam und zutiefst verhärmt / Dein Staat so trist, so unmodern. Die Europäische Union / spricht offen von “dem Hurensohn” der Zeitungsredaktionen schließt / sich so die Beitritts-Chance vermiest. Ey, Deine Mutter ist so fett / ihr Arzt befand: Blutgruppe Mett. Dein Recep Tayyip Böhmermann

Hi 5 and welcome back to 40 awesome tips how not to give advice. This time we start off with a drinking advice. These are always very popular, like my favourite: Don't drink and drive. I take that very seriously, especially since I have been riding a bigger motorbike for years. There's very few cases in which I claim to have adapted to a zero tolerance policy. However this is one of those things, where the red line is pretty clear for obvious reasons. Back to 40 awesome tips, we have a suggestion to drink plenty of water, at least 2 litres each day. Sounds reasonable, you say? Why water? Why can't you drink 2 litres of tea, lemonade, coffee, milk, or anything that isn't hazardous to your health, i.e. basically non-alcoholic and sugar-free? Do people who weigh 100 kg or more and those who weigh 60kg or less have to stick to the lower bound of 2 litres? Do people who exercise and people who don't eqaually have to go with 2 litres as a reference point? In summer

40 awesome tips of how consulting just doesn't work No wine this time, but enough expert advice to analize. Without further ado, here we go. Tip no 6 tells you not to take yourself too seriously, because no one else does. I guess the key word here is 'too', in the sense that you should avoid to leave a slightly conceited or even outright condescending impression. So to cut this short: I am going to follow the advice by not taking it too seriously and hereby implicitly admitting, that basically I concur :-) No, no, no! Envy is based on comparison . And comparison is not something to be afraid of . Actuall y comparison is good ! How come millions of common people read the rainbow press every day and at the same time they are supposed to deny the fact that people are envious by nature and actually enjoy wasting time being envious, sometimes even to a selfdestructive point. This contradiction might sound virtuous but really misses the point. Maybe competitvene

Consulting vs Smart-ass-ing 40 awesome tips of how consulting just doesn't work Recently I was confronted with a page on Facebook, that made me realize, why being a consultant and being a know-it-all must be different things. The page '40 Awesome Tips For A Happy And Healthy Life' is a great example for very poor consulting because it misses the point and by its imperative has an air of bigheadedness. As Facebook is FTW and the page was in English, these following lines will be in English in subsequence. So let's grab a glass of fine wine and have ourselves a field day with 40 tips, of how consulting should work and how it shouldn't. 1st suggestion of 40 Tips is to take a jog every day for 10-30 minutes. Fist of all: you don't jog. You run. N ot everyone likes to run. Some people are not even able to run, let alone every day. Think about handicapped people, obese people, people who have lives, work or other restrictions that prevent t hem from hav ing