I was talking to a colleague today about consultants, and I remembered a book called Sorry, I Broke Your Company.
I was talking to a colleague today about consultants, and I remembered a book called Sorry, I Broke Your Company. “Why Business Consultants Are the Problem, Not the Solution” by Karen Phelan, who was a consultant for many years and then wrote this book and continued to be one at her consulting firm.
The book is good, because the author is familiar with the methods and sanely reveals their strengths and weaknesses. You can evaluate the book by looking at the table of contents Strategic planning cannot predict the future.
- Reengineering is about people. Indicators are means, not goals Standardized Human Resource Management (SHAM) If I’m a manager, what’s worse?
- Stop managing talent. Great leaders do not fit into models.
- Beyond diagrams, graphs and spreadsheets And in the last chapter, there are some cool signs that I added to this post, which is,
- Business jargon dictionary
- Reasons for hiring a consultant
- Advice on hiring a consultant
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