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:

…sustainable improvement comes when clients internalize what is new, make it their own, participate fully in the improvement effort, and build their own capacity.

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Flawless Consulting:

If we give clients precisely what they ask for, we run the risk of not having served them well.

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Flawless Consulting:

…we are dealing with human systems, and human systems are not amenable to technical solutions.

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Flawless Consulting:

The purpose… of discovery is to mobilize action that will improve the organization’s functioning.

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Flawless Consulting:

…one of the consultant’s most important contributions to a client is a redefinition of the problem.

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The presenting problem and the real (or underlying) problem are different.

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Flawless Consulting:

This is the essence of discovery: to move from the language of innocence… to accountability…

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Flawless Consulting:

The way the problem is managed has a powerful effect on the way our expertise can be used.

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Flawless Consulting:

Technical and business problems almost always have accompanying management problems that affect how the technical or business problem gets solved.

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Flawless Consulting:

The strength of any third-party strategy is objectivity.

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