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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In the 13 years since the second edition was published, we've seen the following developments which dramatically impact consultants starting in the profession or veterans in the profession. Remote means of delivering services, from workshops to facilitation, from strategy to M&A work. A waning of the power and repute of huge firms because of their cost and ponderous work methods, and a reception of less expensive, quicker small firms and solo practitioners....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't. At thirty-two, Fern's...
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Language
English
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Description
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency. Bogdanich and Forsythe shows that often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of its executives...
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Series
Publisher
ASTD
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 online resource (16 pages).
Language
English
Description
Using Consulting Systems describes how to initiate and develop relationships with prospective clients. The organizational systems model is an analytical tool that helps consultants gain a holistic view of issues and problems. Problem-solving tools simplify developing alternative solutions and helping clients choose the best one for their particular circumstances.
Author
Language
English
Description
"At a Texas county fair, amidst carousels and a bustling midway, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they're about to head home, the unthinkable happens: a shooter opens fire into the crowd, causing widespread panic to erupt all around them. Also caught in the melee was corporate consultant Calder Hudson. Arrogant, self-centered, and high off his latest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pfeiffer
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 264 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic book, Alan Weiss shows how consulting fees are dependent on only two things: value provided in the perception of the buyer and the intent of the buyer and the consultant to act ethically. Many consultants, however, fail to understand that perceived value is the basis of the fee, or that they must translate the importance of their advice into long-term gains for the client in the client's perception....
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices.But there's something strange about the firm they hire - more specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project, Mr. Patoff.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Version 1.0.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Revealing the secrets behind Oracles astonishing success; this insider's guide offers a virtual crash course in the best practices and proven methods that can take your consulting career to the next level. --
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 338 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability, and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Star financial journalist Duff McDonald uncovers how the managing consulting firm of McKinsey & Company and its high-powered, high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts to the biggest and best American organizations, revealing a list of world-shaping successes and striking failures.
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 298 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Despite the size of the consulting industry and its attractiveness to business school graduates, there is a dearth of agreement about what constitutes ""professionalism"" in consulting. The Practice of Professional Consulting provides the most comprehensive introduction to the field of consulting, including a complete system of guidelines, and all the tools, templates, techniques, case studies, competencies, and assessments to become a professional...
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Language
English
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Description
Matteo Benz has spent his life serving at the pleasure of the Eldovian crown. His work is his life and his life, well...he doesn't have much of one. When he is tasked to aid a management consultant who has been flown in to help straighten out the king's affairs, he is instantly disturbed by her brash American manner--as well by an inconvenient attraction to the brainy beauty. Cara Delaney is in Eldovia to help clean up the king's financial affairs,...
20) Manhunting
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Language
English
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Description
Kate Svenson may be a dynamite businesswoman—but after three failed engagements, she's decided she's hopeless at romance. What she needs is a Business Plan to help her find Mr. Right. The Cabins resort is ripe with eligible bachelors, all rich and ambitious—just her type. But they're dropping like flies, and after fishing Kate's latest reject out of the swimming pool Jake Templeton is convinced that Kate is nothing but trouble. Especially...
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