Category: Essential posts

What makes a good consultant? Part 2a, services and activities

26 May, 2009 (09:22) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 1a, Part 1b, and Part 1c, which covered the rules of engagement with clients.]
 
The blog, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
 
In my three decades of experience accompanying my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1c, Rules of engagement

8 May, 2009 (09:49) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1b and the preceding Part 1a.]
 

Not entirely devoid of interest 
 

“You are engaged,” said I; “perhaps I interrupt you.”“Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one”–he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat–“but [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1b, Rules of engagement

7 May, 2009 (16:46) | AHI activities, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1a.]
 
“You know my methods. Apply them!”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1
 

Holmes worried facts as a dog worries a bone
 
For me as chronicler of the exploits of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, there is never a shortage of material from which to draw; my challenges [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1a, Rules of engagement

6 May, 2009 (10:50) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

 
“I think that I had better go, Holmes.” “Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
A Scandal in Bohemia

Whenever I could, I looked in on Holmes
 

In looking over my modest chronicles of the various housing-finance exploits of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, [...]

The embryo house: Part 2, the building

1 May, 2009 (10:22) | Configuration, Embryo house, Essential posts, Housing, Self-built Housing, Tenure, Theory | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

 
Yesterday’s post introduced the embryo house:
 

 
Although we Americans are used to the modern evolving American home, large parts of the world’s population live in self-built or physically informal housing, harnessing slumdwellers’ greatest resource – their own labor and ingenuity – to improve their homes. 
 

Self-built embryo house, Cape Flats, Cape Town, [...]