A book from Cengage Learning on Management Consulting, 1/E .

Consulting is a popular trend in the business world: the independence, flexibility and potential income it brings makes for an exciting and satisfying career. This book teaches readers how to create their own consulting business, identify the expert advice they can offer to others, and determine the value of that advice.

Provides an action plan for success in the consulting industry. This book offers major consulting topics and provides action items to be done in 90 days for immediate business functions, as well as for planning the future phases of consulting journey. It covers the various opportunities available, including the traps and trepidations to avoid.

Suitable for those who are considering to make a career out of consulting, this book offers practical advice on various aspects of setting-up and running a successful consulting business including; setting your fees, keeping track of time and money, building business with new clients, and winning proposals and business networking.

Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, the author might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a management consultant. But soon he was telling experienced managers how to run their companies. This title provides an account of his days in a consulting firm.

Presents an examination of a variety of specialties within the broad range of management consulting.

A consultant's guide into the cyber century. It combines the tried-and-true guidance with essential information for operating in the much-changed business environment. It includes chapters on Internet marketing, global consulting, delegating labor, blogging, and other issues that play a critical role in expanding businesses into the 21st century.

Explores a broad range of questions and concerns that illustrate the scope and complexity of the consultant - client relationship. This book illustrates the richness and excitement that takes place not only in research on consulting but also in its application as the various empirical analyses of consulting in practice portray.

Explores a broad range of questions and concerns that illustrate the scope and complexity of the consultant - client relationship. This book illustrates the richness and excitement that takes place not only in research on consulting but also in its application as the various empirical analyses of consulting in practice portray.

At last, an insider takes the lid off Management Consulting and reveals how too often this vast and secretive business has become a licence to siphon off almost unlimited quantities of clients' money. In this book the author shows that there can sometimes be truly great management consultancy. However, he also reveals how most of the worlds major management consultancies have become vast and ..

The second edition of the consultant's bible is here! For over fifteen years, consultants----both internal and external----have relied on Peter Block's landmark bestseller, Flawless Consulting, to learn how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others.

Suitable for those needing guidance when carrying out a research project in a management or a business-related subject, this text covers the requirements of general areas of business research and consultancy. It includes a chapter devoted to the analysis of qualitative data. It is also suitable for the needs of MBA students.

includes Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Second Edition and The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion: A Guide Understanding Your Expertise .

I wish this book had been available when I began my independent career. There's only one word for it PRICELESS!!! -Shay McConnon, psychologist, trainer, coach, magician and mentor Grounded in common-sense and humour and very clear about what can send you off track. - Norman Walker, former global head of Human Resources for Novartis, now an independent senior executive coach and consultant on ...

Every year thousands of people like you decide to make the move to independent consultancy. And next year hundreds of them will go crawling back to the security of paid employment. This is a about how to be a consultant.

Updated for the 21st-century, this new edition is for anyone who wants to know what consulting is really like as a career, as a living, and as a life.

A guide for those using or planning to use business consultants - and for consultants themselves. It explores the business consulting world and looks at different elements of it with the aim of both helping firms make better use of consultants and showing consultants how they need to adapt and provide their clients a better service.

'This is a practical and essential guide for anyone contemplating establishing their own business. Johnson captures all the key elements which allow a successful transition and is very clear about what can send you off track. Grounded in common-sense and humour.' Norman Walker, former global head of Human Resources for Novartis, now an independent senior executive coach and consultant on ...

The only complete and definitive guide to the consulting process. This updated second edition contains new models and includes a very timely additional section on ethical consulting.

Focuses exclusively on the implementation of consulting methodology. This title features a simple, accessible, and fast approach to every consulting intervention, and addresses core issues on how to work with clients.