Consulting Basics

Preface

There’s only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and this is not learning from experience.

—Archibald MacLeish

 

 

My journey started the same way it starts for many other consultants. I was a practitioner, a manager, a director, and finally a vice president. One Friday afternoon, my boss came in and told me that I was laid off. I figured that I had worked for other people long enough and since I knew what I was doing, I could make it on my own.

That was many years ago. Since then, I’ve probably made every mistake in the book. Therefore, I decided to write a book—this one. I’ve written Consulting Basics ...