Dangerous Company

Dangerous Company
Author: James E. O'Shea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Business consultants
ISBN: 9780812926347

The Firm

The Firm
Author: Duff McDonald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439190984

Star financial journalist Duff McDonald uncovers how the managing consulting firm of McKinsey & Company and its high-powered, high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts to the biggest and best American organizations, revealing a list of world-shaping successes and striking failures.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2004-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1576755126

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

Consulting Mastery

Consulting Mastery
Author: Keith Merron
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605097209

The author of Riding the Wave: Designing Your Organization for Enduring Success offers readers a master plan for becoming a leading consultant to corporations hungry for meaningful change.

Inside Arthur Andersen

Inside Arthur Andersen
Author: Susan Elaine Squires
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0131408968

The authors bring their unique insights to a close-range observation of Andersen's culture that has continued for more than 15 years. They first review Andersen's unique history and role; its traditionally careful attention to "enculturing" new employees via mentoring, social networking, rewards and punishments; and its social structure characterized by personal, "familial" relationships. Next, they narrate two decades of change at Andersen, showing how the firm's tightly integrated cultural system gradually began to devolve, rapidly coming apart in the wake of the 1990s new economy revolution. The book concludes with an insightful discussion of the systemic cultural and business factors that placed Andersen and many other organizations at risk, along with a realistic assessment of the proposed reforms.

Lowe Family Chronicles

Lowe Family Chronicles
Author: Gerald Lowe
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 141348316X

Lowe Family Chronicles is an account of the lives and times of the Lowe and Chiacu families. It begins in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1936 and continues through good times and bad, concluding in 2004. It was written to provide my heirs with insight into our lives, including personal tragedies, business triumphs, loving relationships and humorous events.

Consulting Demons

Consulting Demons
Author: Lewis Pinault
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0061877662

In this gripping and colorful account of the American dream gone astray, Lewis Pinault provides the essential guidelines on how to get ahead and an enlightening perspective on the brutal infighting that can engulf even the most civilized consulting firm. This stunning exposé of some of the most prestigious and respected names in the business leads you into a world where a client's interests are skillfully subordinated to those of the consultants, where money rules the day, and where principles and morals are unwelcome baggage. Humorous and insightful, this no-holds-barred account takes you behind the scenes of the dehumanizing indoctrination of an academic intellectual into an exploitative -- and exploited -- "global transformation contractor." Featuring new material dealing with the e-consulting industry's boom, bust, and its future, Consulting Demons offers the most complete look at an industry that exacts the highest prices for the most questionable standards of success.

The Campaign Continues

The Campaign Continues
Author: Douglas A. Lathrop
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003-08-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Building A Successful Consulting Practice (In Action Case Study Series)

Building A Successful Consulting Practice (In Action Case Study Series)
Author: Patricia Pulliam Phillips
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2023-05-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607288761

Consulting is one of the fastest growing occupational groups in business today. For many talented individuals around the world, starting a consulting practice offers great opportunity for income growth and job satisfaction. Yet, consulting does have its unique set of challenges including lack of professional respect from potential clients and a high business failure rate. This book, Building a Successful Consulting Practice, will be helpful to anyone starting down this exciting and challenging road. It presents 12 case studies that analyze the success of consulting organizations. This book focuses particularly on small consulting practices, and specifically on those consulting practices closely related to the field of human resource development. You will find value in this book no matter where you are in the process of starting or running a consulting practice. No matter how you plan to use this book, the impressive group of contributors represented in this collection of case studies will be invaluable as you work to achieve your own level of success in the consulting business.

House of Lies

House of Lies
Author: Martin Kihn
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0446562467

In the bestselling tradition of Liar's Poker comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting. Once upon a time in Corporate America there was a group of men and women who were paid huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong and how to improve themselves. These men and women promised everything and delivered nothing, said they were experts when they were not, sometimes ruined careers, and at best, only wasted time, energy, and huge sums of money. They called themselves Management Consultants…. Welcome to the world of Martin Kihn, a former standup comic and Emmy® Award-nominated television writer who decided to “go straight” and earn his MBA at a prestigious Ivy League university. In HOUSE OF LIES, he brazenly chronicles his first two years as a newly-minted management consultant: featuring his struggles with erroneous advice, absurd arrogance, and bloody power struggles. Hey, it’s all in a day’s work— and it pays really well!