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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully [Paperback]

Gerald M. Weinberg (Author)

4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Book Description

Publication Date: 1 Jan 1986 | ISBN-10: 0932633013 | ISBN-13: 978-0932633019

If you are a consultant, ever use one, or want to be one, this book will show you how to succeed.

With wit, charm, humor, and wisdom, Gerald Weinberg shows you exactly how to become a more effective consultant. He reveals specific techniques and strategies that really work!

Packed with practical details, the book shows you how to

* keep ahead of your clients

* create a special "consultant's survival kit"
* trade improvement for perfection
* negotiate in difficult situations
* measure your effectiveness
* be yourself

You will also find straightforward advice on marketing your services, including how to:

* find clients
* get needed exposure
* set just-right fees
* gain trust

The Secrets of Consulting -- techniques, strategies, and first-hand experiences -- all that you'll need to set up, run, and be successful at your own consulting business!

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With wit, charm, humor, and wisdom, Gerald Weinberg shows you exactly how to become a more effective consultant. He reveals specific techniques and strategies that really work!

Packed with practical details, the book shows you how to

* keep ahead of your clients

* create a special "consultant's survival kit"
* trade improvement for perfection
* negotiate in difficult situations
* measure your effectiveness
* be yourself

You will also find straightforward advice on marketing your services, including how to:

* find clients
* get needed exposure
* set just-right fees
* gain trust

The Secrets of Consulting -- techniques, strategies, and first-hand experiences -- all that you'll need to set up, run, and be successful at your own consulting business!

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Product details

Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Dorset House Publishing (1 Jan 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0932633013
ISBN-13: 978-0932633019
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 364,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books for any consultant 9 Mar 2004

By A. K. Johnston VINE™ VOICE

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This is a little book with some big messages. As the subtitle says, it's a book not only for those who give, or sell, their advice, but it's also for those who are taking or buying it.

It's a book both for those who help to manage change, and for those undergoing change themselves. Many people should read it.
That said, the main focus of the book is on those who produce the advice and ideas. If you are a consultant as I am, this may be one of the most important books in your collection. I have read it cover to cover twice, and parts of it many other times.

The book is written with a light, humorous touch, illustrated both with many funny stories and some very apt cartoons and quotations. From each discussion he abstracts multiple "laws" and reminders, which on their own should prompt you to remember the key points he discusses.

Weinberg doesn't pull any of his punches. Consulting is hard, and the secrets are guides to improving your success and survival rate, not any set of "magic wands". He addresses ways in which you can fail just as much as ways to succeed.
In successive chapters, the book deals with the nature of consulting and the problems it can address, and how to develop your own mind so that your can see the problems and come up with possible solutions to them.

Throughout, Weinberg teaches us to focus on the "people" problems: cultural, political and psychological, which tend to be at the heart of any issue, assuming that, as he says, "it's always a people problem". If you can solve the people problems, the practical problems should be easy by comparison.

In later chapters, the book focuses specifically on how to make consultancy more effective: how to improve the impact of what you do, how to help make change happen, and the importance of things like setting the right price and marketing yourself.

This is an easy book to read, with lots of good advice very humorously presented. I can thoroughly recommend it to all consultants, would-be consultants, clients and would-be clients.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to price consulting? This book told me how. 9 April 1997

By A Customer

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When I quit my day job, and struck out on my own, this book was invaluable. In fact, I re-read it now and then, to help my piece of mind. Weinberg's book describes several key aspects of consulting,
which a consultant needs to know for success. Trust of the client, pricing the consultant can live with, pitfalls to avoid are some topics. Though Weinberg describes general management consulting, his principles extend to other consulting fields. Best of all, I know when to say $100 an hour, and when to say $50, and to be happy with the result.

Yet the reading is light and enjoyable. Recommended especially for the self-employed consultant, or the downsized or dilbertized, who want to be self-employed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The most valuable book about consulting I've ever read. 19 Jun 1998

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This book is full of insights which are invaluable to anyone in consulting or considering it for a career. The light-hearted and often comedic style belie the pragmatic nature of the wisdom presented in this book. It's a cross between Plato and Dilbert.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's not really about CONSULTING....It's about life.....

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