Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Consulting

A hands-on, practical guide for those individuals who live and work as internal consultants to organizations.

" Weiss is] one of the most highly respected independent consultants in the country."
--New York Post

If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, you've come to the right place. In Million Dollar Launch, bestselling author and superstar consultant Alan Weiss shows you how to get your business up and running--fast Step by step, Weiss reveals how to create a revenue-producing practice quickly and successfully--while funds last and while support systems remain passionate. This is an indispensable guide to those critical first 90 days.

Alan Weiss is the...

A Systemic Approach to Consultation discusses the application of systemic thinking to work within organizations. The authors draw on their experiences of consulting with teams, departments and whole organizations in both the public and private sectors. They describe their work as an integrated approach called Development Consultation, which focuses on the beliefs and behaviors in the wider system which makes it difficult for organizations to manage their own processes of change. The authors then discuss the way they formulate systemic problems and the interventions, particularly the...

A practical guide to being a trusted advisor for leaders in any industry

In this hands-on successor to the popular book The Trusted Advisor, you'll find answers to pervasive questions about trust and leadership--such as how to develop business with trust, nurture trust-based relationships, build and run a trustworthy organization, and develop your trust skill set. This pragmatic workbook delivers everyday tools, exercises, resources, and actionable to-do lists for the wide range of situations a trusted advisor inevitably encounters. The authors speak in concrete terms about...

So you're a small business, and you think it's time to do some promotion and marketing for your company. There are a couple of choices you have. You can hammer out a marketing plan and implement and execute it yourself. Or you can hire a professional marketing consultant. But, what's the difference? How much money will you really save by handling your own marketing? And what can a marketing consultant do for you that you can't do for yourself? And just what is a marketing consultant anyway? This special report will answer all of these questions and not only tell you what a marketing...

Consulting Best Practices is a complete "How to" book on running a consulting organization. The book is based on the author's 18 years of experience in IT management and 13 years in the IT consulting industry. During those 13 years the author performed many different roles. These roles included billable consultant, project manager, managing consultant, services sales executive, and owner of a consulting company. The author worked for both small niche organizations as well as global services leaders. The book is a condensed version of all the knowledge the author gained in working in these...

Consultants employed by Bank Borrowers and financed by the World Bank or under trust funds are hired according to the Bank's Consultant Guidelines. This document sets out the format of a sample evaluation report. It is provided to Bank Borrowers to facilitate the evaluation of consultants' proposals and the subsequent review of these proposals by the Bank. Its use is strongly recommended but not mandatory. The report can be used for all methods of selection described in the Guidelines. Though it mainly addresses Quality- and Cost-Based Selection, each section contains a note indicating the...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from world-renowned advice expert teaches everyday people how to share their story and wisdom with the world and build a lucrative business doing so.

In this game-changing book by Brendon Burchard, founder of Experts Academy, you'll discover: Your life story and experience have greater importance and market value than you probably ever dreamed.

You are here to make a difference in this world. The best way to do that is to package your knowledge and advice (on any topic, in any industry) to help others succeed.

You can get paid for sharing...

A Practical Guide to help Business Advisors "kick start" their practices. A great resource to help experienced Business Advisors improve their businesses. The Business Excellence Model will help any Business Advisor sustain a more profitable practice.

It's My Turn to be an Entrepreneur offers detailed information on all of the challenges associated with becoming an entrepreneur BEFORE you make the decision to start a business. Starting and running a business is not a simple process. It takes a great deal of thought and planning. Here, you will learn all of the things necessary to set up a business, find capital, take on partners, market, and most important, how to plan to ensure success. Good luck on achieving the American Dream of running your own business and becoming America's Next Entrepreneur

Do you want to be an independent management consultant? Or are you already consulting part time and want to figure out how to grow your business into a full time practice? Then this is the book for you. The Intentional Consultant details the personal story of the author who created a sustainable independent management consulting practice of over 20 years. The author reveals her secrets to success and useful steps to consider for those who intentionally plan to have a career as a business consultant and entrepreneur. Why do you want to be a consultant? What is it that you will be consulting...

This book compares the approaches of consultants and academic advisers and provides an in-depth analysis of their advice argumentation. Both compete on the market for economic advice, with consultants enjoying a larger market share and usually obtaining higher fees. However, academics criticize them for overcharging, shallowness, and quick-and-dirty methods. So, are consultants' clients misled or even cheated? Not necessarily. The book reveals that academics have drawbacks as well; their arguments are less balanced than those of consultants and their estimates contradict each other more.

The concept of teamwork is extremely important to the success of any business. Teamwork has the potential to yield some very incredible results. For most of us, teamwork is a part of everyday life. Whether it is at home, in the community, or at work, we are often expected to be a functional part of a performing team. Teamwork as defined by Webster's New World Dictionary is "a joint action by a group of people, in which each person subordinates his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group." Great companies realize that the cultivation of teamwork within...

Created especially for the Australian customer

Your step-by-step guide to success as a freelancer, consultant or contractor

Ready to work on your own terms and in your preferred location? Freelancing for Australians For Dummies provides you with everything you need to make the leap from employee to being your own boss. A total guide to starting and running a freelancing, consulting or contracting business, it provides hard-won expert tips -- whether you want to strike out on your own or kick-start your existing business.

Discover how to:...

Value. For too long, performance has been about cutting back and holding back. About making things smaller and doing what we can, not what we should. Here's a book about making things bigger: sales and profits and, especially, ideas. It's time to grow again. Not to forget the lessons of efficiency and discipline, but to add the expansiveness of top-line growth to middle-of-the-sheet discipline and build truly unprecedented value. Mary Baum Has been developing ideas that sell since the 1980s, for companies from the Fortune 500 to single-unit retailers and fledgling consultants. With extensive...

If you have clients, at some point you're going to have an unhappy one. Everyone does. Successful professionals are not the ones who never have client problems, but the ones who handle those problems well. This book offers simple, effective guidelines for managing client and stakeholder conflict. These eight easy steps will help you resolve the emotional disruption, fix the problem, and strengthen your client's confidence in you and your service. When clients complain, most of professionals want to rush right into addressing the issue that the client complained about. But in most cases,...

NOT A STAND ALONE STUDY GUIDE. This book is designed to accompany the Salesforce Certified Sales Consultant Exam Preparation class offered by Stony Point. A student in this class will learn how to be a Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant. This book should only be purchased by students who will be attending class. This in person, three day class is delivered by a senior instructor with many years of real world consulting experience and is specifically designed to prepare consultants to pass the Salesforce Certified Consultant Exam. The instructor will cover all the key sales automation concepts...

Follow the expert advice in this book--the fifth in The Ultimate Consultant series--and you will learn what it takes to work effectively with clients to launch and conduct projects and bring them to a successful conclusion. Alan Weiss, internationally recognized consultant and author of the best-selling Million Dollar Consulting, shows you how to form partnerships with clients who will enthusiastically assist and support the implementation of all your consulting projects.

This is a practical guide on what good consultants do. If you are a consultant, this book tells you how to sell your professional services. If you are in charge of hiring consultants, this book shows you what to look for in a consultant. The author is a former Fortune 500 corporate manager who hired and fired numerous consultants and contractors. This no-holds-barred guide is written by someone who has been on both sides of the table.

In Case Interview Secrets, you'll discover step-by-step instructions on how to dominate what many consider to be the most complex, most difficult, and most intimidating corporate job interview in the world--the infamous case interview. Victor Cheng, a former McKinsey management consultant, reveals his proven, insider's method for acing the case interview. Having personally secured job offers from McKinsey, Bain & Company, Monitor, L.E.K, Oliver Wyman, and A.T. Kearney, he has also been a McKinsey case interviewer--providing you with a hands-on, real-world perspective on what it really takes...