Consulting For Dummies

by Peter Economy, Bob Nelson

A clear, concise resource for entering this lucrative career fieldConsulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition includes a reorganization and narrower focus of the topic, with new or updated information that delves into the specifics of running your own consulting business. There is greater emphasis on the business of consulting, along with financial and legal issues involved in setting up a consulting business, deepening coverage of consulting proposals, and entirely new chapters on higher-level consulting issues that more-established consultants are demanding.

Genres: Business, Reference, Buisness, Nonfiction, Entrepreneurship

386 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2011

About the author

Peter Economy is a Wall Street Journal best-selling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant with more than 125 books to his credit (and more than 3 million copies sold).

Peter’s latest book is Wait, I’m Working With Who?!? published by Career Press. He also helped create Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results; Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in Dance Class; The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness (a Wall Street Journal bestseller); Managing For Dummies; User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product; The Management Bible; Peter Isler’s Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets; and many more.

He is the Leadership Guy on Inc.com and for more than a decade served as Associate Editor for Leader to Leader magazine—published by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum in New York City. Peter taught MGT 453: Creativity and Innovation as a lecturer at San Diego State University, is on the National Advisory Council of The Art of Science Learning, and is a founding member of the board of SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes.

A graduate of Stanford University (with majors in Economics and Human Biology), Peter has worked closely with some of the nation’s top business, leadership, and technology thinkers, including Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Barry O’Reilly, Peter Senge, Kellie McElhaney, Jeff Patton, Marshall Goldsmith, Marty Cagan, Lolly Daskal, Guy Kawasaki, Emma Seppala, William Taylor, Jim Kilts, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Stephen Orban, Ken Blanchard, and many others.

Reviews

[Russell Allison · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm generally a fan of the For Dummies and For Idiots books because they are the equivalent of a not-very deep but typically broad literature review on a topic.
This one is below average in that it tries too hard to consider all the different types of consulting someone might do, instead of focusing on a more limited range. A much much better book for someone considering this one is The Business of Consulting by Elayne Biech.

[Mo Ha · Rating 1 out of 5]

In short - Did not enjoy it at all.

I am not sure if its the topic or the authors way of using the "For Dummies" template that went wrong, (as I am NOT a knowledgeable person in the topic) . This book left me more confused than when I picked the book up.

PS: Anyone reading this Review, please feel free to leave suggestions on best books on consulting !

[Juliet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Skimmed to take what I need (turns out I got the UK edition) but big takeaways for me:
1. Rule of 1/3s: loved this and confirmed with what I've been doing currently.
2. The 5 steps of the "consulting process" breaks down on how you should approach consulting for a client (keeps you organized and to the point).
3. Heavy on how to approach clients which is something I've never done.

[Phil Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book definitely helped me back when I began consulting. Now, I probably have most of this content committed to memory.

[Amol Sampatrao Ramteke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for motivation

Several ideas may motivate ... Today I have my own business after reading. All you need is available at one place from. Forming to Billing.

[Stephen Heverin]

Consulting for Dummies by Bob Nelson (1997)

[Ben Kellermann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Consulting For Dummies, 2nd Edition includes a reorganization and narrower focus of the topic, with new or updated information that delves into the specifics of running your own consulting business. There is greater emphasis on the business of consulting, along with financial and legal issues involved in setting up a consulting business, deepening coverage of consulting proposals, and entirely new chapters on higher-level consulting issues that more-established consultants are demanding.

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