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Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition (Unabridged)
 
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Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Peter Block (Author), Erik Synnestvedt (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 9 hours and 21 minutes
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  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
  • Audible Release Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007470BCO
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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When the landmark best-seller Flawless Consulting was first published more than three decades ago, it was quickly adopted as the "consultant's bible." With his legendary warmth and passion, Peter Block explained how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. The book continues to speak to people in a support function inside organizations as well as to external consultants.

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Peter Block's groundbreaking book explores the latest thinking on consultation. It includes new insights about how we can organize our consulting around discovering the strengths, positive examples, and gifts of the client organization or community. The book remains a practical and specific guide for anyone who needs to develop a capacity for deeper relatedness and partnership - which means it is for all who wish to make a real difference in the world.

This new edition covers the consulting challenges that have arisen from the way we routinely communicate electronically and live in the virtual world. Block suggests ways to overcome the distancing and isolating effects inherent in electronic connects. The book also includes practical guidance on how to ask better questions, gives suggestions for dealing with difficult clients, and contains expanded guidelines on more engaging forms of implementation.

Flawless Consulting includes two new examples, taken from health care and educational reform efforts, to show how consulting skills can be useful (and often transformative) in a broader context. These illustrative examples point the way for achieving changes for leadership in business, government, religion, human services, and more.Like the first two editions, Flawless Consulting affirms the notion that authentic behavior and personal relationships are the key to technical and business success. By demonstrating their ability to be truly authentic at each step in the process, consultants can aim toward creat...

©2011 Peter Block; (P)2012 Gildan Media Corp

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
Peter Block covers the intangibles of consulting: the politics, communications and the obstacles that derail the consultant/client relationship. This book is a MUST read, not only for consultants, but for anyone that works in or around companies that have politics, or bureaucracy, or people. That should cover just about all of us. This book helped me because it covered so much more then the business techniques of consulting, hey I'm a business consultant after all. Flawless Consulting helps you master communication and contracting gaffs, to understand why after much good advice the customer still does the wrong thing, and most importantly how your success can be assured despite those kind of issues.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
I was given this book when I joined our firm. It is as relevent today as when it was written. I recently was involved with a project that went sour and, as a result, went back and read his chapter on when a project is about to fail. Every warning sign he listed was present in this project and we almost failed to see them!

This should be a must read for all consultants. I am buying several copies for members of my team!

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Invaluable 6 Aug 1998
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Format:Hardcover
An essential book for the one-person consultant, either just beginning or a veteran. No matter how well you think you know your clients or your expertise, this book will keep you focused on the consulting essentials, leading to successful and implemented projects - and clients who will want you again. If you can only afford one book on consulting, this is the one - no bull!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not really a beginners guide
I bought this to give me some guidance on getting my expertise used - but it was really a book for management consultants and was a bit over my head. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mimi in London
Superb
This is a superb book, a classic, which I shall read again and again and again.

The subtitle frames the content well: A guide to getting your expertise used. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Clarke
Brill
This is the best and only book any would-be consultant needs to read. I wish more actual consults read it too. Completely brilliant.
Published 7 months ago by Boomshanker
A great resource for consultants
Meanders a bit. He drags it out. But nonetheless a great resource on contracting and consulting behaviours more generally. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Peter W. Burden
The underlying work of the consultant
Just to pop an illusion, consultants do actually care about their work having value. Many get paid a high fee and their brief never comes to life. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ross Boardman
Excellent
There is no doubt that the author knows what he is talking about and practices what he says. If the book has a fault it is a certain dryness in the text, but that should be... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Graham R. Hill
Useful tool...
I'm not a consultant myself but am interested in consulting and incorporating new skills into my workplace with a view to consulting later on in my career. Read more
Published 8 months ago by joojeh99
Worth consulting
I'm very sceptical about this sort of book (and probably consulting in general). However, Peter Block has managed to focus on skills and techniques which I could recognise in... Read more
Published 9 months ago by C. J. Tyler
Skeptical then appreciative
When I first started this book, it seemed to be very padded. Essentially I felt like what I was reading was a lot of fluff about what a consultant is and does. Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Yeow
Focuses on core skills, not the latest management fad
This book will be helpful for many people; even if you don't consider yourself to be a consultant, this book will probably be relevant to you. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Al
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