The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion: AGuide to Understanding Your Expertise - Softcover

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PETER BLOCK has been a consultant and speaker all over the world for more than thirty years. He is the founder of two well-known training and consulting firms, Designed Learning and Block Petrella Weisbord, and the author of three best-selling books, Flawless Consulting (1981; 1999), The Empowered Manager (1987), and Stewardship (1993). Peter has received several national awards for outstanding contributions to his field, is the creator of the Flawless Consulting Workshops, and has joined with the Association for Quality and Participation to create the School for Managing and Leading Change. For more information visit www.PeterBlock.com and FlawlessConsulting.com; or email Peter at pbi@att.net.

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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

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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