Consulting Career

Applying the dozens of lessons and practical advice will save you the time, energy, and cost of learning them the way I did—the long way and the hard way. Adopting these principles early in your business career will significantly improve your chances of success and move you ahead of your peers who are not as well informed.

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: Manage our careers.

In the best-selling tradition of Liar's Poker comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting.

Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the best-selling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual.

From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines, and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy - mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those who've figured out the formula, life has never been better! The Gig Economy is your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world. Succeeding in it starts with shifting gears to recognize that only you control your future.

Casey Stanton is here to change your life—and revolutionize how you serve companies as a marketer. Based on over a decade of trial and error and Stanton’s experience working inside over 100 companies as a marketing strategist and fractional chief marketing officer, The Fractional CMO Method cracks the code on what it takes to attract, convert, and serve great companies as a fractional CMO. With clear action steps, engaging stories, and access to swipe-and-deploy worksheets, you’ll be well on your way to winning and serving great clients in no time!

Whether you're just getting into consulting or you're a seasoned consulting veteran but aren't experiencing the level of success and results you truly desire, this book offers you the advantage you need. Michael Zipursky, CEO of ConsultingSuccess.com and coach to elite consultants, has coached and trained more than 6000 consultants from around the world. In this book, Michael identifies the most significant factor in your success: your mindset.

Drawing on 30-years of successful change management delivery, this book lays out how to get any business change adopted. Written in an engaging conversational style and brought to life through cartoon character "Change Cat", it gets to the heart of how to design, develop, and deliver change that works.

From Michael LeBoeuf, the best selling author of Working Smart and the audio programs Working Smarter, Imagineering, and The Perfect Business, comes How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life. With a hardhitting, action-ready rewards-and-incentives ideology, this is the ultimate program to building a successful business through customer satisfaction.

For over 15 years, consultants, both internal and external, have relied on Peter Block's landmark best seller, Flawless Consulting, to learn how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. Using illustrative examples, case studies, and exercises, the author, one of the most important and well known in his field, offers his legendary warmth and insight throughout this much-awaited second edition.

The Engaged Leader addresses why leaders need to master a new way of developing relationships, which begins by stepping out of traditional hierarchies; how to listen at scale, share to shape, and engage to transform; the art of making this transformative mind shift; and the science of applying the right tools to meet your strategic goals. This transformation is not optional. Those who choose not to make this change will be abandoned for those who inspire people to follow them.

Imagine if you could start your dream business, work from home, and make a real difference in people's lives. When you become a life coach, all of this is possible. The authors of Make Money as a Life Coach get it. They know what it’s like to navigate the world of online business and coaching. After considerable learning and several wrong turns, they’ve both gone on to create successful coaching businesses.

Consulting firms hire bright people directly out of college or with industry experience to help their clients solve business problems. Consulting 101 provides you with 101 useful tips to optimize your professional performance and jump-start your consulting career with success.

Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, and an urgent, overdue defense of human intelligence. Christian Madsbjerg argues that our fixation with data often masks stunning deficiencies, and the risks for humankind are enormous. Blind devotion to number crunching imperils our businesses, our educations, our governments, and our life savings.

How do rainmakers consistently and continuously sell their ideas and grow their client base? They succeed by adopting the mindset, mastering the strategies, and employing the tactics at the heart of rainmaking. In Selling Your Expertise, veteran communications, sales, and leadership consultant Robert Chen provides a practical guide to selling knowledge-based services in a market that demands credibility and subject-matter authority. Whether you're a national practice partner or an independent attorney just starting out, this book equips you with the knowledge you need.

Does the life of a consultant tempt you? Are you worried about leaving the security and stability of corporate life? Does the thought of going it alone excite and terrify you in equal measure? If you are going to make the leap, then this book will alleviate a lot of the risk. Instead of trying to work it out on your own and falling into classic traps, follow Matt’s path and set your consultancy business up for success. If you want the flexibility of being a consultant with the financial security of a profitable business, you’re ready to learn how to go from full-time to fulfilled.

Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap: 12 Questions to Understand What’s Truly Underneath Your Culture is a transformational book that weaves together the stories of two companies that, on the surface, appear to be quite similar. Underneath, however, they couldn’t be more different.

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a good life coach. Being a life coach means choosing a career that's rewarding for both you and the person you are coaching. The person or persons you are coaching will benefit from having their own personal cheerleader and life-hack guru. You benefit whenever you are able to turn someone's life around for the better. That's because helping people is a reward in itself.

Subscriptions are shifting revenues, reshaping markets, and changing our expectations for how we buy things. Have you changed your marketing practices to thrive in this new reality? Subscription Marketing offers creative marketing strategies for sustaining the customer relationships that build long-term success.

Management consulting is seen as a glamorous profession. Behind the mystique are the consultants who put in extraordinary effort, synthesize great problem-solving skills, and display fine personal attributes that enable them to capture the attention and respect of their clients. This book opens up to that world through the story of Samanta Thomas, a character based on countless excellent consultants, through whom we get inside the very mind of a consultant and their journey.