Managerial Consulting Skills: A Practical Guide

If you liked "Flawless Consulting" you will like this work (to me, this is a MUCH better book and it deserves to sell better!) This is NOT one of those boring, simplistic, generic overviews of how to develop your consulting skills.This is PRACTICAL, concise, logically organised personal disclosure (from first-hand experience) of some of the most important and critical aspects of consulting. It will be useful to external consultants, internal advisors and manager (clients) themselves. Plus (very unusual for a management book), it does make an interesting reading.Lots of diagrams (when I see a book without even a single diagram or graphics - and there are many around, I stop considering it - to me it CAN NOT be a good management book, with some notable exemptions), lots of quick and useful exercises, you will NOT be bored!I wanted to give it 5 stars (it deserves it) but the high price put me off (although, when compared to hundreds of thousands of dollars a client firm may waste on consultants, this is the bargain of the century, it should pay for itself 100-fold in savings!). Talking about bargains, I bought a second hand copy for a couple of dollars one day when the sun was really shining! I wish I had this book when I was writing my book "Managing Consultants" - it would have saved me many hours and made it a better book. Anyway, I do use (and credit) some of the principles outlined here in my seminar for clients "How to Manage Consultants" and I do recommend the book to all participants. Good onya, Charles!

This book is a no nonsense guide to consulting. It shows how to gain assignments, how to conduct the the preliminary work and the 12 major consulting steps.It deals with the political and personal and interpersonalapproaches to working effectively with clients.It is full of easy to use diagrams and models. It looks at why consulting assignments fail and how to make them work by providng real cases and lessons from experience.This is a how to do it book and outlines new approaches, such as action learning. This is a book not just for full time consultants, but for all who are asked and required to contribute to organization consulting processes as part of their job.