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Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition
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Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition

by Peter Block
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 53m
English
Jossey-Bass
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CHAPTER 8

UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE

The hardest part of consulting is coping successfully with resistance from the client. As we consult, it is natural for us to feel that if we can present our ideas clearly and logically, and if we have the best interests of the client at heart, our clients will accept our expertise and follow our suggestions. We soon discover that no matter how reasonably we present data and recommendations, clients present us with resistance.

Resistance doesn’t always happen, but when it does, it is puzzling and frustrating. In the face of resistance, we begin to view the client as stubborn and irrational, and we usually end up simply presenting the data and justifying the recommendations more loudly and more forcibly.

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