Entries Tagged 'Consulting' ↓

by anniehp

Below is the list of books every consultant should read.

The books are not necessary focused on consulting – it is about marketing, customer service, leadership, personal effectiveness, writing, and more.

I have added posts inspired by each book for the reference.

Consultant or not, many of these books are great resource to help anyone to grow. It helped me, it will help you.

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by skippyjon

It takes ages to build trust in consulting. It only takes a moment to lose it. I call it trust and Geoffrey M. Bellman calls it partnership in his book The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, New and Revised

Bellman gives a good list of reasons why partnership [or trust] is easily lost. Here it is:

• The contracting is unclear.
• You work your own agenda.
• The fit is poor.
• The client has too much work and too little money.
• The project becomes less important to the client.
• You accept the work you would  not ordinarily do.
• You after the money.
• You catch the client’s "disease".
• You hold naïve positive assumptions.
• You pretend.

I wish I had this list long ago, before I learned it myself.

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by Knut Burmeister

Failure happens. I slip and I fall. It happens more than I want it to happen. I am on my quest to find out what are the early signs of a failure. Geoffrey M. Bellman shares good perspective on it in his book The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, New and Revised.

Here is Bellman’s list:

• There are too few resources.
• There is too much training.
• There is a lack of leadership.
• Change is pursued as an event.
• Change is pursued in isolation.
• There is "flavor of the year" change.
• There are many unconnected changes.
• Meaning is lost in methods.

Let me share with you my personal view on each one of the above statements.

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