Flawless Consulting – A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
This Third Edition to Peter Block's Flawless Consulting addresses business changes and new challenges since the second edition was written ten years ago. It tackles the challenges next-generation consultants face, including more guidance on how to ask better questions, dealing with difficult clients, working in an increasingly virtual world, how to cope with complexities in international consulting, case studies, and guidelines on implementation. Also included are illustrative examples and exercises to help you cement the guides offered.
About Peter Block (Cincinnati, Ohio Author)
Peter Block is an author, consultant and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. His work is about empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability and the reconciliation of community.
Peter is the author of several bestselling books. His most popular works include:
“Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used” “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest” “The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work”, which embodies Peter Block’s management philosophy. He has also authored, “Flawless Consulting Fieldbook & Companion: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise"; “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters" (Berrett-Koehler, 2002) which won the 2002 “Independent Book Publisher Book Award for Business Breakthrough Book of the Year” and “Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophic Insight to the Real World” which was co-authored with consultant and philosopher Peter Koestenbaum.
Peter Block’s consulting books facilitate ways to create workplaces and communities that work for all. They offer an alternative to the patriarchal beliefs that dominate our culture. Bringing change into the world through consent and connectivity rather than through mandate and force is the ultimate goal of Peter Block consulting efforts.
Flawless Consulting (3rd edition, 2011) is about having impact when you have no direct control and has become a classic for anyone in a consulting role. The Empowered Manager focuses on creating an organization of our own choosing. Peter Block’s "Stewardship" is about the right use of power and designing organizations for service. "The Answer to How Is Yes" is about giving priority to what matters over what simply works.
He received a Masters Degree in Industrial Administration from Yale University in 1963 and performed his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas.
Peter serves on the Boards of Directors of Elementz, an urban arts center; and LivePerson, a provider of online engagement solutions. He is on the Advisory Board for the Festival in the Workplace Institute, Bahamas. He is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University. With other volunteers in Cincinnati, Peter began A Small Group, whose work is to create a new community narrative and to bring his work on civic engagement into being.
He has received national awards for outstanding contributions in the field of training and development, including the American Society for Training and Development Award for Distinguished Contributions; the Association for Quality and Participation Presidents Award; and Training Magazine HRD Hall of Fame.
Peter’s office is in Mystic, Connecticut.
