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.
Table of Contents:
Welcome
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
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.
