The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion : A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise

Don't venture into the consulting field without this essential Fieldbook & Companion! Following on the heels of the best-selling Flawless Consulting, Second Edition comes The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion. Whether you work as a consultant or you work with consultants, this relentlessly practical guide will be your best friend as you discover how consulting influences your business- and real life-decisions and those of others. The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion is packed with: Sample scenarios Case studies Client-consultant dialogues Hands-on tools Action plans Implementation checklists'Wow! A companion a business owner can't be without! The insights of 30 consultants the caliber of Peter Block is priceless.'--Sue Mosby, principal, CDFM2 Architecture Inc.'This book is a companion piece for both the desktop and bedside of those who do consulting full time or in their role as leader. I plan to keep this book close to me to both guide and inspire my work.'--Phil Harkins, president, Linkage, Inc.

A friend indeed!

In this time of free agency, outsourcing, and cross-functional work teams, consulting has become a part of everyone's job. Plus, we live in an era in which we are forced to hire professionals to provide the help we used to seek from friends. Some of this need for instant expertise is for reassurance; some is just that we do not have time to learn it ourselves. So, despite all the ambivalence surrounding consulting, it has grown into big business and generally infiltrated our lives.

The intent of this book is:

• To support the integrity of your expertise
• To change your mind about how you interpret your own consulting experience
• To broaden your way of thinking
• To bring a manageable dose of therapy and art, philosophy and literature into you thoughts about consulting, and
• To so it in a comforting and simple way

Enjoy this book, let it accompany you into the field, and use it as encouragement for writing your own story, which may the point of it all.

Don't venture into the consulting field without this essential Fieldbook & Companion ! Following on the heels of the best-selling Flawless Consulting, Second Edition comes The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion . Whether you work as a consultant or you work with consultants, this relentlessly practical guide will be your best friend as you discover how consulting influences your business- and real life-decisions and those of others. The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion is packed with: "Wow! A companion a business owner can't be without! The insights of 30 consultants the caliber of Peter Block is priceless." -- Sue Mosby , principal, CDFM2 Architecture Inc. "This book is a companion piece for both the desktop and bedside of those who do consulting full time or in their role as leader. I plan to keep this book close to me to both guide and inspire my work." -- Phil Harkins , president, Linkage, Inc. This fieldbook is packed with sample scenarios, case studies, and client-consultant dialogues to show readers what "flawless consulting" is really about. It takes the practical approach of flawless one step further, and includes more hands-on tools, action plans, and implementation checklists. Block's down-to-earth lessons apply equally well to external consultants, internal staff members, managers, executives, and communicators. Index. "Whether you work as a consultant or you work with consultants, this relentlessly practical guide will be your best friend as you discover how consulting influences your business- and real life-decisions and those of others. The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion is packed with: Sample scenarios, Case studies, Client-consultant dialogues, Hands-on tools, Action plans, and Implementation checklists."--Provided by the publisher We live in a one-minute culture in which speed is God and time is the devil.