CHUCKS (Charlotan/Huckster)

CHUCKS (Charlotan/Huckster)

The Standard for professional help in the world of dispute resolution is somewhat ambiguous –  I am someone who focusses on miiniumum standards before i make a selection for help from a professional service (or perceived professional service since the word origin for professions is  from professus to be publicly recognized – only accountants, engineers, lawyers and doctors). I steal from the words of Robert Genn a practical artist blogger who distinguishes between the good stuf and the shit basicaly – Be a perennial student. Know what “brilliant” looks like. Be a discriminating connoisseur. Be both passionate and particular. Destroy your substandard work.  

Thats right “know what brilliant looks like” as a student and lifelong learner there is no point for me to be mentored or by anything less than the brilliant – why emulate shit???? as a neophite however, it is a bit of a learning curve to discover whose the wheat and whose the chaff, boys/men etc, do your reseach, get to know your industry, do not be fooled by the crafty LinkIn bamboozlement or the 10k twitt followers

Consultants and Hucksters are selling themselves based on very thin amounts of information and by which they are then experts that can serve a particular field  or industry – the trouble with that modern information highway is that any fool can decide that they are going to have a specialized offering based on their shoe size and a recent dreamscape and presto they are an expert and ……someone, somewhere is going to want that shit, if you have not read Chris Andersons (editor of wired magazine) The Long Tail, either read it or at read wikipedia the page.

Its is quite remarkable how many “expertst claim they have skills and expertise that they dont REALLY have.   In particular coaches (no disrespect intended to you Sam), consultants and facilitators, vision or dream architects and just insert whatever kitchy little play – on words that infers that you might be immortal or superior on some level.  Truth is, its just the kitchy little name that sets many of these Charlotans apart from the next door LinkIn neighbour.