Valuing Your Expertise: How to Handle ‘Pick My Brain’ Requests and Turn Conversations into Opportunities
Do you ever feel like “Can I pick your brain?” or “Let me buy you a coffee” is really a request for free consulting? It happens to me all the time. After 12 years as a consultant, I am learning to value my time and expertise more intentionally. One of the best phrases came from […]
Embracing Change: Why the Internet and AI Are Opportunities, Not Threats
“The worldwide web is a meeting place and will never be used for commerce.” I heard those words from a speaker in the late 1990s, when the internet was first becoming a thing. He explained that the internet was created for research, collaboration and conversation and people were expected to contribute. If you tried to […]