Book Titles

Flawless Consulting
A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

By Peter Block

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0470620748
Categories: Consulting

122 Quotes Found

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Flawless Consulting:

There is a power among peers that bosses can never approach.

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We work hard at managing, and at times manipulating, those who have power over us.

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Peers are the ones we are functionally accountable to, no matter who conducts our performance review.

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At the moment of commitment, the institution becomes ours to create, and in that act of committing, we can find our freedom.

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We live in a world that is much more interested in our weaknesses and deficiencies than in our strengths and gifts.

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Despite our shyness and discomfort we feel in talking about gifts, successful implementation comes more quickly from capitalizing on our strengths.

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Results are achieved when members of a system collectively choose to move in a certain direction. It is this act of choice that is critical.

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Leadership behavior is not as vital as membership behavior.

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A sad truth is that students who show real caring about learning usually pay a high social price in their social realm.

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…students who fail are on the way toward reaching the learning pool.

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