My Objective is to Help You Achieve Yours
Welcome to my "Skullworks." I am Fred Nickols, Managing Partner of Distance Consulting. This is where I present the products of my thinking and writing. I am available for consultation, presentations and assistance. For an unusual sales pitch, click on Services. The yellow dots on the map below indicate where I have provided or am providing "Assistance at A Distance." My latest client is the Chief Operating Officer of a high-tech firm in India. The red dot indicates my location in Ohio. Enjoy your visit and if you don't do anything else, be sure to visit The Knowledge Workers' Tool Room.
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A GUIDE to THIS SITE: This site contains hundred of articles, models and tools for use in a variety of areas by a wide range of practitioners (e.g., training, human performance, Organization Development, change and change management, consulting, knowledge management and communities of practice, problem solving, strategy and strategic planning, and work and management). All this can a bit overwhelming. Where to look and for what? Fortunately, there is a complete site index, a guide to the resources on this site, and it is in downloadable PDF format. No need to move from section to section or click on menus to see what’s in that section. Simply open or download the PDF file and scroll through it online or offline at your convenience. It has working links to all sections of the site and to most of the contents of all sections, including the tools in the award-winning Knowledge Workers’ Tool Room. The link to the site index is immediately below. Think of it as your guide to the resources on this site.
Complete Site Index: A Guide to the Resources on this Site
If you want to browse this
site, the links below are to the major content sections of this site (e.g., click on
Book Reviews and you will be taken to that section). The numbers in parentheses indicate the
number of items in that section. You can browse the various
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If you are a senior manager, executive or CEO, you might want to read about a couple of "Big Wins" by clicking here.
The links below are to the personal and professional pages of this site (e.g., clicking on Fred Nickols will take you to my page).
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My book, Sea Stories: Tales about Leadership, Morale and More, is available on Amazon in Kindle and paper back. One of the sea stories can be read by clicking here.
Another of my books, Tools for Knowledge Workers, Vol 1, is also available on Amazon. It is a collection of 12 visual thinking tools along with information explaining each tool and how to use it, including examples, and cases. Chapter 1 presents each tool in a one-page format. Chapters 2-13 discuss uses and applications of each tool.
You can access both of the books via my author's page on Amazon by clicking on either of the book cover images below.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are welcome to a single copy of anything on this web site for your personal use. However, none of the material on this site may be reproduced or further distributed or posted elsewhere without the payment of a modest fee. Compensation for materials on this site rests on what I call an "Honor System" and the honor on which it rests is yours. For more, see Honor System.
This page last updated on July 3, 2021