In my many years as a consultant (prior to my start here at the Eclipse Foundation), I worked with more organizations that I can reasonably count. My feeling is that I have provided a lot of value to the groups that I’ve worked with. Depressingly, though, I feel that some of my greatest successes as a consultant have very little to do with my fantastic abilities to manipulate technology to implement my will on the world. My greatest successes have had more to do with getting folks to actually communicate with each other.