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How can you take your skills and expertise and package it to become a successful consultant? There are proven time-tested principles, strategies, tactics, and best practices the most successful consultants use to start, run, and grow their consulting business. Consulting Success teaches you what they are.

Stop Carrying the Plan Alone. Build a Structure That Scales. Plan Smarter. Lead Stronger. Scale What Matters. If your plans keep fading once the year begins, you're not alone. Most leaders don't fail because they lack ambition. They fail because they don't have a planning system that can survive the realities of leadership. Planning to Scale helps you close the gap between intention and execution.

Seismic changes occurring in the workforce are leading to more and more people entering the world of contract, freelance, and contingency work. Rapid changes in demographics and advances in technology have led companies and talent to engage in profoundly new ways and consulting is one of the keys to success.

Lean Manufacturing Made Obvious for Leaders is a practical guide for managers, supervisors, business owners, and improvement leaders who want real operational progress without jargon, consultant fog, or overly academic theory. This book shows you how to make work visible, understandable, and sustainable so your team can run with it.

This book reveals what it takes for consultants of all types, as well as organizational leaders, to be really helpful in dealing with the complex, systemic, constantly changing organizational problems of today. They need to rapidly create a relationship of trust and openness that enables clients, subordinates, and team members to reveal what is really on their minds and to jointly develop a sense of what is the problem and what kind of adaptive response could best deal with it.

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products.

The ultimate do-it-now guide to getting started in managed services. Now includes chapters on cloud services, bundling, and more. Whether you're a new computer consultant or an experienced technician making the move to managed services, this is the perfect audiobook for you! The audiobook includes step-by-step instructions for creating service offerings, reformulating your business, creating service agreements, and more!

Why am I here? What is my purpose? How can I live it and thrive? Many of us wrestle with these questions as we try to create meaning in our lives. Challenging life experiences can especially leave us asking: What was it all for? In Lemonade!, you will discover: How to identify your purpose and live it, no matter what Higher Power you subscribe to. The critical role inner work plays in achieving lasting success. The secret sauce to business success you will not learn in an MBA program. How to leverage the most important indicator of success in business. And much more.

Drawing on his experience as a senior partner at a multi-billion dollar consulting firm and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas MBA program, Jeff Kavanaugh is ready to share the tools of the trade for young professionals to quickly scale the consulting learning curve. Pulling together the best content from his own experience, as well as other world-class consulting leaders and industry professionals he has worked with, Kavanaugh has distilled the lessons into the key skills that separate the best from the rest.

A PMO creates value when, and only when, it enables educated, fact-based decisions regarding resource allocation across projects, programs, and portfolios. If, subsequent to one year of inception, the PMO cannot provide an up-to-date, accurate view of resource allocation, then it has failed in the single most important role that a PMO has in the organization.

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.

There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show listeners how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement.

Ever feel like your construction business is one mistake away from collapse? You’re not alone—and there’s a blueprint for building it right. When a once-failed contractor takes a second shot at success, he quickly learns that working in the field was the easy part. The real challenge? Creating operating and financial systems that won’t crumble under pressure. In Blueprints for Success, Timothy Wingate Jr. pulls back the curtain on the messy reality of construction entrepreneurship.

This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work.

To create a more sustainable transformation in the people you coach, you need to start with your own mindset. As a coach, you know you can’t change what you do, unless you alter what you believe first. By shedding the ineffective scripts, trappings and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training and even your parents have taught you, you can reset your thinking to a beginner’s mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery.

Imagine if you could start your dream business, work from home, and make a real difference in people's lives. When you become a life coach, all of this is possible. The authors of Make Money as a Life Coach get it. They know what it’s like to navigate the world of online business and coaching. After considerable learning and several wrong turns, they’ve both gone on to create successful coaching businesses.

In Negotiate It!, best-selling author and renowned negotiation expert Lynn Price delivers a powerful, easy-to-listen guide that will immediately elevate your negotiation skills across every area of your life.

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended listening for business owners, HR professionals, and others who are responsible for the human resource function within their organizations. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, The Golden Rules of Human Resource Management is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of your business.

Most sales books teach tactics. This one teaches judgment. In Culture Beats Strategy, Christopher E. Fleming studies the companies that endured, and some that collapsed, to uncover what actually drives lasting success in the marketplace. From Ron Jon Surf Shop to Raising Cane’s. From Buc-ee’s to Bank of America. From Crazy Eddie’s rise to its collapse. Each story reveals a simple but powerful truth. This truth is strategy looks impressive on paper, but culture determines whether it ever works in the real world.

The art of negotiation depends on your ability to successfully communicate with the other side of the table. An important part of this communication is your ability to signal to the other side what your intentions are. Likewise, they will be signaling to you what they want to accomplish.