What do you want? Watch this video and then try to answer this question about your work. I dare you.
Then tell me – was it easy to answer?
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[reminder]Was this question easy to answer for you?[/reminder]
You Already Have One Consulting Client. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.
This episode of Company of One is for the experienced professionals who feel that pull toward consulting but can’t quite see the path from where they are to where they want to be. The ones waiting to feel ready — not realizing the person people want to hire already exists.
I’ve been thinking about this question since you asked it at the IEM summer seminar 6 months ago. I still don’t have a solidified answer yet. I can think of lots of peripheral things like “I want to be my own boss” or “I want to run my own company” but I don’t think that is necessarily what my end game should be. There are a lot of ways I could meet these goals without really being happy. Still pondering…
Keep pondering – we will work on you more this summer;)
Update to the comments: Brandon Morgado has now graduated from IEM (2011), and successfully launched his own business, StartUpBirmingham (www.startupbirmingham.com), along with Chase Wright (IEM 2012). They were featured in the IEM CloseUp, June 2011, and you can check out that interview here: http://www.uab.edu/iem/iem-experience/news-headlines/27-blog/187-pilot-episode-of-iem-closeup-meet-startup-birmingham