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| The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion : A Guide Understanding Your Expertise | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter Block, Andrea Markowitz
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 121651
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0787948047
Dewey Decimal Number: 001
EAN: 9780787948047
ASIN: 0787948047
Publication Date: October 22, 2000
Release Date: October 22, 2000
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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.
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 DON'T LEAVE CONSULTING HOME WITHOUT IT... October 1, 2007
Block keeps learning from his own sparkling consulting insights as time goes by. At One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ we would read with respect an old envelope that he used to catch a fleeting insight after a dinner with a consulting client. This book may be an after-thought, but it is not to be lightly dismissed by any serious consultant or client.
Drucker The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) at his best, and Henderson Henderson on Corporate Strategy and Schaffer High-Impact Consulting: How Clients and Consultants Can Work Together to Achieve Extraordinary Results (Completely Revised and Updated) also have the same influence at One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ. After decades of using their seminal teachings inour practical 100-Day Action Projects around the globe, if they speak from the here or from the hear-after we perk up and listen with both ears.
A must have January 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For any consultant, in any field. Block speaks about the heart of consulting work, not only the mind of it.
making sense of consulting January 8, 2002
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Peter Block's classic book's fieldbook and companion has an unusual structure and there lies it's USP. It looks at dilemmas and challenges that consultants face and also the tools that can be used. If you want to know the innards of consulting, without getting caught up in brands, to delve into both the art and science, then read this book....it's a must for facilitators, trainers, process consultants of all hues and colors.
 Bedtime stories Consultants read their Children October 17, 2001
37 out of 41 found this review helpful
I have the 2nd edition of Block's "Flawless" and find it an essential reference, true to its reputation. Disappointingly in this Companion many of the authors seem to treat the readers as a captive audience - at the level of first year college students. For example - a diatribe on Romeo and Juliet as an illustration of human diversity, or three pages of "my worse experiences" one of which transpired to be freezing on stage and losing the point. These type of chapters annoyed me and distracted me from some of the worthy contributions. So much so that I returned the book to the bookshop and asked for my money back - the first time I have done so in 30 years of buying management books. In my opinion this book is a dud riding on the coat tails of the previous 'flawless' success.
Roadmap to consulting in the 21st century June 12, 2001
32 out of 37 found this review helpful
This book deserves to be among the TOP 10 of business books of 2001. If you work as a consultant and want to learn your customers how to fish (in stead of giving them fish), BUY this book! If you have consultants walking around in your organisation, make sure they apply these principles!After reading this, you'll understand why re-engineering processes fail, why the balanced scorecard isn't "the" solution", why teaching people skills sometimes has no impact, why implementing SAP is so hard and why people in companies are very sceptic if you suggest any of these "popular" solutions. In fact, all these solutions share the same underlying principle: some knowledge and procedures need to be added to the company to "fix" problems. This notion is wrong! Overcoming resistance to change has to do with giving people a chance to participate. When studying projects of famous consultants and big 5 consulting comapnies, I have often wondered: "Why did the implementation of this project fail?" My first personal lesson was that PEOPLE matter more than methodology and tools. (I have been writing about this for years...). Next to this first learning, I knew that it's not the consultants that have to bring the solution, it's the persons IN the organisation. And I have been looking for years for solutions to this paradox (being a consultant, that is). SO: methodology IS important: if you use a methodology which will mine the knowledge of the company as a WHOLE, you are the enabler of the change. As a consultant, you do not have to bring the CONTENT, the knowledge of WHAT needs to be changed, but you have to GUIDE the change process, and bring knowledge to the organisation so that they can change themselves. This book is one of the few that will really help you understand which processes are needed for this (many of the 30+ people that helped to write this book have a proven track record in this area). If you don't know how to put systemic thinking into practice (or you think it's just about designing a solution with the system in mind), and/or if you haven't heard about whole-scale change, apreciative inquiry or the engagement paradigm, this is a good place to start: you will literally discover a new way of consulting, one that lives up to the title of this book and might even really enable "flawless" implementation processes. And if putting this book into practice isn't flawless: go to the last chapter: Peter Block added a "trouble-shooting guide" that helps you get trough 12 common roadblocks. Make consulting flawless, learn how to make people share THEIR solution. Patrick E.C. Merlevede, co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"
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