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:

When people are under stress and things are not going well for them, they need support, not more confrontation.

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Change in human systems, even in a monarchy, has much more to do with the consent of the governed than the will and ability of those who govern.

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It is the mandated institutionalization of useful practices that takes the life out of most implementation efforts.

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Vision is more a dialogue than a declaration.

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To have high expectations of others is to have faith in them.

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The myth is that setting standards will increase accountability. What is most often creates is compliance.

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Change and accountability occur when we live them, not preach them.

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We particularly dilute the value of measurement when we separate the people who evaluate from the people who do the work.

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Must of what matters cannot be measured, and our consulting needs to reflect that.

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A social system is a living system and not that amenable to linear or mechanical beliefs about organizations.

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