The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion
A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise
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2. Auflage Februar 2024
352 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The perfect resource for consultants, updated for a transformed and rapidly evolving market
In the newly revised second edition of the Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, best-selling author and consultant Peter Block delivers an invaluable companion to the fourth edition of his popular Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise. In the book, you'll find an expansive toolkit you can draw on for information and guidance in the midst of your next consulting engagement. It's a just-in-time literary aid that you can read from front-to-back, or one you can grab and skip to a specific thread or theme you need to read about right now.
In the book, you'll discover:
* How the flawless consulting skills are being applied in a wide variety of situations by people with unique and different ways of bringing their gifts in the world. Just like you.
* How to act on what you know to use a variety of approaches to create experiences aligned with your intent and strategy
* How to view resistance as an ally instead of a problem to be solved or overcome.
An invaluable collection of resources for consultants everywhere, Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, 2nd edition will rapidly become your most used and dog-eared reference for everyday consulting engagements.
The Icons
I No Fast and Easy Way
1 Flawless -- M. J. Wheatley
2 Transformation: Slow, Small, and Low Cost -- Dan Joyner
3 Risk Is Where You Find It -- Peter Block
4 Consultant, Flawed -- Ken Murphy
II The Complexity of Advice
5 Partners for Possibility -- Louise van Rhyn
6 Changing Focus -- Patrick Dolan
7 Be Careful Who You Ask -- Andrea Markowitz
8 Dealing with Resistance -- Phil Grosnick
III The Power of the Question
9 Flawless Goes to Parliament -- Joe Maalouf
10 A Cautionary Tale -- Jill Janov
11 Change Is in the Details -- Peter Block
12 Talk Is Walk -- Peter Koestenbaum
13 So, What's Working Here? -- Elizabeth McGrath
IV Emotions and the Personal
14 From Organization Development to Making Music -- Marvin Weisbord
15 One Woman's Wisdom -- Rosemarie Barbeau
16 Sneaking the Spirit In -- John Schuster
V Valuing Capacities
17 Consultant for the Classroom -- Ward Mailliard and Peter Block
18 Talking with Sled Dogs: Leading from Behind -- Sam Magill
19 Investing in Our Humanity: Women's Leadership Collaborative -- Nancy Voss
VI Integrating Strategy and Experience
20 The Engagement Paradigm -- Dick and Emily Axelrod
21 Unleashing the Magic in Organizations -- Paul Tolchinsky,
Kathie Dannemiller, and Sylvia James
22 Nancy's Advice -- Nancy Sanchez
23 Anonymous Interviews? Definitely Yes and No -- Neale Clapp and Liz Clapp O'Connor
24 Community: Once upon a Time in a Place Called Home -- David and Carole Schwinn
25 How Is Who Doing? -- Peter Block
VII No Masks No Bargains
26 Proximal Health: A Surgeon's Perspective -- Paul Uhlig
27 My Worst Consulting Nightmare -- Amy Katz
28 Seven Questions to the Most Frequently Asked Answers -- Peter Block
Postscript
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index