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In today's fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one's discipline is not enough, assert professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The key to professional success, they argue, is the ability to earn the trust and confidence of clients. In this 20th anniversary edition, Maister, Green, and Galford enrich our understanding of today's society and illustrate how to be effective communicators in a digital world.

The second edition of The Consulting Bible remains the most comprehensive and practical guide to the consulting profession, from launch to high growth, from marketing to implementation. Legendary consultant, speaker, and best-selling author Alan Weiss shows you how to create an independent or boutique consulting practice and take it to seven-figure success.

How Clients Buy is the much-needed guide to selling your services. If you're one of the millions of people whose skills are the "product," you know that you cannot be successful unless you bring in clients. The problem is, you're trained to do your job-not sell it. No matter how great you may be at your actual role, you likely feel a bit lost, hesitant, or "behind" when it comes to courting clients, an unfamiliar territory where you're never quite sure of the line between under- and over-selling. This book comes to the rescue with real, practical advice for selling what you do.

In the newly revised third edition of Value-Based Fees: How to Charge What You're Worth and Get What You Charge, best-selling author, speaker, and renowned consultant Dr. Alan Weiss delivers a thoroughly updated guide to proposing, and receiving, consistently high fees that are based on the value you deliver to each client you serve. The author walks you through the many reasons that time-and-materials pricing models are outdated and inadequate and how to convert existing clients to your new value-based fee model.

How to Win Client Business When You Don't Know Where to Start provides a masterclass in teaching the practical techniques and concrete strategies that professional services providers were never taught in school or on the job. Pragmatic lessons take the place of the vaguely defined principles found in competing books to turn listeners from sales novices into rainmakers.

High performance isn’t forced. It’s felt. And the leaders who understand that don’t just build teams - they create movements. The People Puzzle is written for leaders who know their team can be more. They want connection, commitment, and collective energy that drives results from the inside out. In a world where performance is often pushed, this book offers a refreshing challenge: stop trying to force it, and start building it, piece by piece.

Josué Gadea es el creador del método Venta por Valor y tiene buenas noticias para ti: puedes vender más sin ser el más barato. Josué se preguntó ¿qué pasa por la mente de una persona para que el 99% de las ocasiones nunca compre el producto más barato?La cuestión es que el ser humano tan listo y racional que parece, es el animal más ilógico e irracional que nos podemos encontrar ahí fuera. En este libro vemos cómo utilizar la comunicación dirigida a nuestro cerebro más primitivo y animal que es el que decide el 85% de las veces lo que compramos y lo que no.

Have you experienced a moment when you realized your career wasn’t as secure or fulfilling as you thought it was going to be? Maybe you’ve thought about using your skills to start your own consulting business – but you haven’t had the confidence to go for it. Donald Miller has been consulting and coaching for over two decades. He’s consulted some of the world’s top brands including TOMS Shoes, TREK Bicycles and Tempur Sealy.

Top performers have figured out a radical new approach that is redefining what it means to be a "rainmaker" in today's professional services market. Drawing on a comprehensive, quantitative study of nearly 3,000 partners, The Activator Advantage identifies the five types of partners found across the professional services landscape and shows how only one of them—the Activator—drives consistent growth.

Drawing on 30-years of successful change management delivery, this book lays out how to get any business change adopted. Written in an engaging conversational style and brought to life through cartoon character "Change Cat", it gets to the heart of how to design, develop, and deliver change that works.

When the pressure is on, many of the world's top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world's most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.

Not Just A Tradie is not your standard 'how to' business book. This audiobook will introduce you to timeless principles that are not shared in many business and life education programs. When applied consistently, these principles will help you create a profitable and cash-positive business that also allows you quality time for what matters most, whatever this is to you.

Renowned consultant and author Peter Block delivers the latest and fourth edition of his bestselling Flawless Consulting, an intuitive and insightful step-by-step guide to the five phases of effective consulting. The book offers a deep exploration of the skills, tools, and behaviors required to successfully influence others. You'll see exactly what you need to say and do to help others achieve their goals, whether you are an internal or external consultant or anyone in a leadership position who wants to build effective partnerships in business, healthcare, education, or community work.

This passionate expertise manifesto is intended to elevate the impact of advisors who sell insight as entrepreneurs. Three foundational chapters form the basis of the entire audiobook: Experts develop insight by isolating patterns in data; they convert those insights to wealth by crafting a unique positioning for which few available substitutes exist; and their confidence grows as the marketplace embraces their application of expertise. The next 15 chapters - building on that foundation - each answer a single question.

Internationally renowned high-performance coach and mentor Nadine Muller is no stranger to adversity. After thirteen illustrious years of full-time Australian military service as a nursing officer and a critical care registered nurse, Nadine’s life took a tumultuous turn, and she came face-to-face with her own battles. A hurricane of events unfolded in a short amount of time: Nadine and her second child both nearly lost their lives, her husband faced a severe mental health crisis, her dad battled dementia and lost his life, while her father-in-law was given a dire prognosis.

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

Working out what to include and exclude in an MSP offering, as well as how to bundle, package, and price your plans, is one of the toughest things most MSPs face when building and growing their business. In this short but impactful audiobook, Nigel demystifies the process, answers the tough questions, and provides examples to help you build an MSP offering that not only appeals to your clients but also allows you to scale.

Are you tired of living in the draining loop of work-eat-repeat? Do you want to leverage a new opportunity that can open the doors to more financial control and stability? Are you interested in making a legacy that can serve several generations to come? If you dream of living on your own terms, then you’ve come to the right place--you are about to discover how you can turn your expertise into a successful money-making model in just seven easy steps!

The Business of Expertise, David’s previous book, set the stage by suggesting a narrow focus and then capitalizing on the patterns that emerge from repeated application of your expertise. This book builds on that work by suggesting how to craft a consulting practice with those insights.

Land the deals you want and develop your instincts with million-dollar negotiation techniques. After selling over $3 billion in real estate, including the most expensive one-bedroom house in history, Josh Altman, costar of the hit show Million-Dollar Listing Los Angeles, wants to teach you the real estate sales and negotiation tactics that have made him one of America's top agents. Buying or selling a house, whether for a client or yourself, is one of the most important and stressful deals anyone can make, demanding emotional intelligence and a solid set of negotiating skills.