Allen Eskelin - Management consultant and author

Go Seahawks!

Jan 09

WOW!!! Who would have thought the Seahawks could pull this off. They had the worst record in history for a wildcard game and beat the reigning Super Bowl champions. Late in the 4th quarter the Seahawks had a 14 point lead and they lost momentum with a missed pass interference call that would have setup a touchdown. Then a delay of game penalty put them out of field goal range. This caused them to have to punt and the Saints answered with a touchdown and then a field goal, making it a close game with momentum going to the Saints. With about 3 minutes left, I was telling a friend “why do they keep running the ball when they keep losing yards. The very next play, Marshawn Lynch ran the ball something like 60 yards, breaking 7 TACKLES! That pretty much ended the game. Wow, I still can’t believe they pulled this off. Hopefully this will give them the momentum and belief that they can go all the way.

Happy Holidays!

Dec 25

Bucket List: Finish the Ironman

Dec 20

A few days ago, I decided to go for it and registered for the Ironman. For those who aren’t familiar with the Ironman, it’s a triathlon in which participants swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and finish it off with a 26.2 mile run (a full marathon), all within 17 hours in order to become an Ironman. It began as a challenge between a group of Navy Seals and now the Ironman has grown to become one of the most recognized endurance events in the world.

I registered for the Ironman event that will be held in Coeur’d'Alene, ID on June 26th, 2011. This worked out perfect because it’s within driving distance and gives me 6 months to train. ... full article

Stop Networking and Start Connecting

Aug 30

When mentoring young professionals and students on planning their careers, I tell them what I wish someone would have told me early in my career. That is that two of the most important things you can learn that will enable your success in any field is communicating (especially public speaking) and developing strong business relationships. We’ll save communicating for another post but the topic of this post will be how to develop strong business relationships.

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Consulting as a Digital Nomad

Jun 13

There have always been nomadic workers who work on the road. In the past decade, a new type of nomad has emerged, the Digital Nomad. As technology has enabled affordable, continuous connectivity anywhere, more and more information workers have moved toward a mobile lifestyle.

Dell provides technology to these workers and has created an online community for these Digital Nomads. Here is their definition of a Digital Nomad:

“In the Connected Era, Digital Nomads will Rule – Redefining productivity, placeshifting and timeshifting. Their devices won’t wait to connect – they will simply be connected. Always. Everywhere. Business as usual will become business unusual.”

Source: digitalnomads.com

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CEOs Define the Framework for Decision-Making

Jun 10

Decisions are made at all levels of an organization, spanning short-term tactical to long-term strategic, unimportant to critical, low-risk to high-risk, simple to complex, and common to unusual.

How does a CEO improve and influence the full range of decision-making at all levels of their organization? ... full article

The Case for Solo Consulting

Jun 06

If you are a cubicle dweller, I feel your pain. I’ve been there. I’ve got the t-shirt. After 6 years with one Fortune 500 company and 7 years with another, I made the jump to solo consulting. There’s a whole story there but we’ll save that for another time. Let’s just say that going solo was the best move I’ve made in my career. The goal of this post is to lay out the case for you to go solo.

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Enabling Opportunistic Tactical Decision-Making

May 02

Does your company capitalize when a market condition creates a significant short-term opportunity? Recently, big box retailers missed 2 opportunities in the NW:

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Fire the Lawyers

Apr 30

A lawyer’s job in a negotiation is to advise on risk and the law. Lawyers are not typically the decision-makers in a negotiation. The worst-case scenario for a lawyer is that they fail to uncover every possible risk that may become an issue in the future. For this reason, lawyers will often fight to the end to create the perfect contract with zero risk for their client/employer. This is where I use the phrase “Fire the Lawyers”. ... full article

Reduce Input to Increase Decision-making Output

Apr 18

I was listening to Leo Babauta’s interview of lifestyle design expert Tim Ferriss and something Tim said caught my attention. He was talking about all the different sources of distraction competing for our attention and that he found he could write more productively if he eliminated the possibility of distraction. In other words, he reduced the input so he could produce more output.

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