This great little book has helped me in two ways - it discouraged me from becoming a consultant, when I still wasn't ready for it; now that I'm ready for it, I'm using it as a roadmap to what I need to do next. It's a rare book that does that for you. -- LaurentBossavit
Yes, a great book.. and incredibly well written & readable. -- DaveAstels
Contains some wonderful rules for influencing others, including a classic definition of consulting:
- Consulting is influencing others at their request.
That little gem has saved me, and many people who have gotten this book from me, an awful lot of grief. If they haven't asked for your influence, well, that's a problem. -- JimBullock
This book and it's sequel contain many lessons about many topics. The single biggest lesson for me was the idea that you were being brought in to influence people in certain areas and you should not meddle in other areas unless asked. Thus the definition of consultancy that I took away from this book has a slightly different emphasis: "consulting is the art of influencing people
at their request".--
AdewaleOshineye
There are some great wisdom in this book. I found the folksy style initally appealing but eventually quite irksome. I could never remember what his various rules ("Rudy's Rutabaga Rule", etc.) actually
meant and had to keep flipping back to re-skim them whenever they were referred to elsewhere in the book. Very, very tiresome. --
NatPryce.
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