In the newly revised second edition of the Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, best-selling author and consultant Peter Block delivers an invaluable companion to the fourth edition of his popular Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise. In the book, you’ll find an expansive toolkit you can draw on for information and guidance in the midst of your next consulting engagement. It’s a just-in-time literary aid that you can read from front-to-back, or one you can grab and skip to a specific thread or theme you need to read about right now.
In the book, you’ll discover: - How the flawless consulting skills are being applied in a wide variety of situations by people with unique and different ways of bringing their gifts in the world. Just like you. - How to act on what you know to use a variety of approaches to create experiences aligned with your intent and strategy - How to view resistance as an ally instead of a problem to be solved or overcome.
An invaluable collection of resources for consultants everywhere, Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, 2nd edition will rapidly become your most used and dog-eared reference for everyday consulting engagements.
Table of Contents
Welcome
The Icons
I No Fast and Easy Way
1 Flawless - M. J. Wheatley
2 Transformation: Slow, Small, and Low Cost - Dan Joyner
3 Risk Is Where You Find It - Peter Block
4 Consultant, Flawed - Ken Murphy
II The Complexity of Advice
5 Partners for Possibility - Louise van Rhyn
6 Changing Focus - Patrick Dolan
7 Be Careful Who You Ask - Andrea Markowitz
8 Dealing with Resistance - Phil Grosnick
III The Power of the Question
9 Flawless Goes to Parliament - Joe Maalouf
10 A Cautionary Tale - Jill Janov
11 Change Is in the Details - Peter Block
12 Talk Is Walk - Peter Koestenbaum
13 So, What’s Working Here? - Elizabeth McGrath
IV Emotions and the Personal
14 From Organization Development to Making Music - Marvin Weisbord
15 One Woman’s Wisdom - Rosemarie Barbeau
16 Sneaking the Spirit In - John Schuster
V Valuing Capacities
17 Consultant for the Classroom - Ward Mailliard and Peter Block
18 Talking with Sled Dogs: Leading from Behind - Sam Magill
19 Investing in Our Humanity: Women’s Leadership Collaborative - Nancy Voss
VI Integrating Strategy and Experience
20 The Engagement Paradigm - Dick and Emily Axelrod
21 Unleashing the Magic in Organizations - Paul Tolchinsky,
Kathie Dannemiller, and Sylvia James
22 Nancy’s Advice - Nancy Sanchez
23 Anonymous Interviews? Definitely Yes and No - Neale Clapp and Liz Clapp O’Connor
24 Community: Once upon a Time in a Place Called Home - David and Carole Schwinn
25 How Is Who Doing? - Peter Block
VII No Masks No Bargains
26 Proximal Health: A Surgeon’s Perspective - Paul Uhlig
27 My Worst Consulting Nightmare - Amy Katz
28 Seven Questions to the Most Frequently Asked Answers - Peter Block
Postscript
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
