Great Consulting Challenges and How to Surmount Them: Powerful Techniques for the Successful Practitioner

Great Consulting Challenges: And How to Surmount Them showshow consultants can use the wisdom gleaned from Weiss's ownpractice and from other seasoned members of the profession to helpovercome persistent problems and next-level challenges. Weissexplains that as consultants' careers develop and become moresophisticated and complex, so do the challenges they encounter. Forexample, the question of price competition occurs at every level ofthe consulting business, yet the techniques for astutely resolvingthe issue can be vastly different for the veteran consultant ascompared to the novice who is merely trying to establish a newbusiness. In this book, Alan Weiss discusses the great consultingchallenges in key areas such as marketing, selling, delivery, andpractice management and offers practical advice for overcomingcommon problems and learning to thrive as a consultant.

Alan Weiss-- author, international consultant, and high-demandkeynote speaker-- is the founder and president of Summit ConsultingGroup. His clients have included Hewlett-Packard, State StreetCorp., Fleet Bank, Coldwell Banker, Merrill Lynch, American PressInstitute, Chase, Mercedes-Benz, GE, and American Institute ofArchitects. He is the author of twenty-one books, including TheUltimate Consultant (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001) and GettingStarted in Consulting (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Weiss resideswith his wife Maria in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.