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Flawless Consulting
- A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
When the landmark best-seller Flawless Consulting was first published more than three decades ago, it was quickly adopted as the "consultant's bible." With his legendary warmth and passion, Peter Block explained how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. The book continues to speak to people in a support function inside organizations as well as to external consultants.
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Peter Block's groundbreaking book explores the latest thinking on consultation. It includes new insights about how we can organize our consulting around discovering the strengths, positive examples, and gifts of the client organization or community. The book remains a practical and specific guide for anyone who needs to develop a capacity for deeper relatedness and partnership - which means it is for all who wish to make a real difference in the world.
This new edition covers the consulting challenges that have arisen from the way we routinely communicate electronically and live in the virtual world. Block suggests ways to overcome the distancing and isolating effects inherent in electronic connects. The book also includes practical guidance on how to ask better questions, gives suggestions for dealing with difficult clients, and contains expanded guidelines on more engaging forms of implementation.
Flawless Consulting includes two new examples, taken from health care and educational reform efforts, to show how consulting skills can be useful (and often transformative) in a broader context. These illustrative examples point the way for achieving changes for leadership in business, government, religion, human services, and more.Like the first two editions, Flawless Consulting affirms the notion that authentic behavior and personal relationships are the key to technical and business success. By demonstrating their ability to be truly authentic at each step in the process, consultants can aim toward creating workplaces that are more collaborative and ultimately more successful.
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- matthew caplan
- 17-07-20
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absloute hate the narration from Erik. His intonation and strange snarl at the end of each sentence is intolerable
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- EthicalllyInspired
- 30-04-15
Waiting for another Narrator voice
Would you try another book written by Peter Block or narrated by Erik Synnestvedt?
I'd get through this book faster with another narrator's voice please.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Haven't got into it as I can't bear the narrator's voice for long
Would you be willing to try another one of Erik Synnestvedt’s performances?
No
Any additional comments?
Look forward to other Narrator voice options for Audible so I might be more interested in your books. Thanks. Apologies Erik, you sound like a nice guy but it's just not for me.
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- LC
- 04-04-21
Detailed guidance for achieving excellence in consulting
This book gives a very detailed exploration of how to achieve excellence in consulting, including turning teaching into a consulting activity. The techniques and approach can be useful outside of pure consulting too.
There is a lot to take in, so I plan to listen again.
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- David Richardson
- 23-06-23
Really interesting
The story warms rally compelling and thought provoking. Sadly the narrator sounds like he is running at double speed and is very annoying but worth listening to the end
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- Petr
- 14-08-13
Good book, bad narrator
Would you consider the audio edition of Flawless Consulting to be better than the print version?
Havent read it in print.
What did you like best about this story?
Insights about human side of consulting.
What didn’t you like about Erik Synnestvedt’s performance?
Rhytm of sentences is always the same, swallowed ends of sentences, some syllables swallowed and/or hard to understand. However the performance appears to improve at the second part of the book. Or I got used to it.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Why human side of consulting is more important than the hard/expert content and how to be succesful at it.
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- Alex, London
- 31-03-19
A must read for consultants at all levels
A must read for all consultants at all levels of experience. In any situation tangible positive outcomes depends on collaboration, an understanding of both the both the rational and emotional drivers of the challenge, and on dealing effectively with the human and organisational issues. this book offers the framework you need to be successful.
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- Adam
- 26-04-16
Reading makes it difficult to stay focus
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The boks narrations/reading is just plain bad. Erik Synnestvedt has very funny way of reading with some unusual accenting at the end of the sentences.
How could the performance have been better?
There was no way the focus could be on the plot as the reading made it so hard.
Did Flawless Consulting inspire you to do anything?
I am afraid that this book is not inspirational at all. Maybe its the way it is being read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-04-22
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narrator accent very anoying.
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- Jim
- 16-02-14
The narration really isn't that bad
I think we're all agreed that the content's good if you can get past the narration. But I really haven't found the narration on this one to be that bad. The narrator has a mildly off-putting style and it sounds like the producer has mixed it in such a way that when he speaks quietly we hear every catch in the throat but compared to Barry Cunliffe's Brief History of the Druids or The Red Prince this narrator is doing a grand job. Others have obviously found this a very tough listen but for me the narrator's tone was nicely varied in a way that suggested that he was thinking about he was reading and last but not least this is an important and helpful book for those of us who work in organisational consulting. The production could be better but as with many Audible business titles it does a fine job of saving busy people the time required to sit down and plough through a useful book. Hence 4 stars overall
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- Jan
- 15-04-16
The narrating gets better
Don't leave this audiobook on the shelve just because of the extremely irritating narrating performance in the preview. It gets much better after 30 minutes or so.
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