Leading a professional service firm is difficult enough in good times, and it is all the more risky in difficult ones. In Leading Firms: How Great Professional Service Firms Succeed & How Your Firm Can Too David Kuhlman, a highly respected management consultant to many of the world's top firms, gives an informed view on how those in professional services can achieve the same success as best-in-class firms. Most businesses claim that people are their...

Organizations face problems today that are too messy and complicated for consultants to simply play doctor: run a few tests, offer a neat diagnosis of the 'problem,' and recommend a solution. With the pace of change accelerating and globalization and specialization adding new layers of complexity, there is no time for diagnoses. Canned answers from outsiders have become useless. Well-meaning consultants often end up working on the wrong problem, misunderstanding...

No longer does an executive need to work for the same company year after year. Nor does a CEO need to spend months looking for the perfect executive candidate. There is a dramatic shift from needing to own an executive s expertise for a number of years to simply leasing expertise on an as-needed basis. "How I Fired My Boss and Made More Money" provides an insider view of how top-level executives are enjoying long and accomplished careers as interim...

Christine E. Wilson, Ed.D provides the exact steps, processes and tools to take you by the hand in an entertaining and no-nonsense style using her techniques, knowledge of the early childhood education field, social psychology, marketing and knowledge of digital products to get the freedom to work for yourself and leverage your incredible passion for early childhood education into your own consulting business. This guide covers: • Finding your...

Elizabeth provides an excerpt: When I talk about having the magical practice, I focus mostly on taking care of people. But, creating and having structure is another major part of creating a magical practice. I can honestly say I have seen firsthand how much more a team can accomplish by adding structure. By creating and having a system for every aspect of what you and your team do, you remove the guesswork out of the equation. You and your team will...

This is a book on how collaboration is more powerful than competition in terms of return on investment. The time and effort invested in collaborating with industry peers is far more beneficial than competing with them. A collaborative effort seeks to increase productivity with growth. Through collaboration you increase profits as a result of improved productivity. This is counter to most business experience of flat or decreasing productivity with...

This book details, how manufacturing developed in America, through the industrial revolution and labor movement, analyzes, the impact of outsourcing offshore and our nation's trade policies, looks at what various organizations are doing to try to help save American manufacturing, and what we can do, as individuals from the perspective of business owners, employees, consumers, and voters, to save American manufacturing. Author Michele NashHoff argues,...

Raymond Aaron, the nation's number #1 success and investment coach, has committed his life to teaching people just like you how to utilize his powerful goal setting strategies and life management tools to dramatically change your life for the better. Plus, using his own innovative techniques developed over the last two decades, he shows you how to step-by-step take conscious control of your world so you can "Double Your Income Doing What You Love...

New, updated edition 2021. Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., Certified Professional Coach with over 20 years experience in business coaching gives you the step-by-step method to become a corporate or business coach or consultant. Most importantly she shows you how to promote it, how to get in with big corporations, and how to maintain your professional ethics and integrity. Dr. Lyn shows mental health providers, coaches and human service providers how they can rich...

Back in science class everyone learned that a chain reaction is a sequence of reactions that causes additional reactions to take place. A metaphor for a chain reaction is a rolling snowball causing a larger snowball until finally an avalanche. Chemically, the equivalent is a spark causing a blazing forest fire. Consultants who want to attract high-paying clients are looking for the secret of creating a client attraction chain reaction. The typical...