The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise, 2nd Edition

  • 4h 52m
  • Peter Block
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2024

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.

About the Author

PETER BLOCK is a bestselling author and the founder of Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed to build the skills he describes in his books. He is deeply involved in his community, including his local neighborhood council, and is Director Emeritus of Elementz, an urban arts center in Cincinnati.

In this Book

  • Welcome
  • The Icons
  • Flawless
  • Transformation Is Slow, Small, and Low Cost
  • Risk Is Where You Find It
  • Consultant, Flawed: A Story of Eternal Internal Triangles
  • Partners for Possibility
  • Changing Focus: The New Direction of “Flawless” Consulting
  • Be Careful Who You Ask: Perils of Wisdom
  • Dealing with Resistance: Having the Right Conversation in Difficult Situations
  • Flawless Goes to Parliament
  • A Cautionary Tale: Trying on Yesterday’s Methodologies
  • Change Is in the Details
  • Talk Is Walk: Language and Courage in Action
  • So, What’s Working Here?
  • From Organization Development to Making Music
  • One Woman’s Wisdom: Balancing Competence with Consciousness
  • Sneaking the Spirit In
  • Consultant for the Classroom
  • Talking with Sled Dogs: Leading from Behind
  • Investing in Our Humanity: Women’s Leadership Collaborative
  • The Engagement Paradigm: Changing the Way We Change Our Organizations
  • Unleashing the Magic in Organizations
  • Nancy’s Advice
  • Anonymous Interviews?: Definitely Yes and No
  • Community: Once upon a Time in a Place Called Home
  • How Is Who Doing?
  • Proximal Health: A Surgeon’s Perspective
  • My Worst Consulting Nightmare
  • Seven Questions: To the Most Frequently Asked Answers
  • Postscript
  • Selected Bibliography
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