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The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World ( Get this book )About ten years ago I was reading Still Surprised, the memoir of Warren Bennis, a psychoanalyst who served as a management and leadership consultant during his long and distinguished career.

My favorite book on consulting is “Principles” by Ray Dalio. The book is broken into 3 parts, and part 2 is the best! It gives people actionable advice on the tools and techniques to be successful — predominately challenging how we all think and make decisions. Love it!” Key Management Models: The 60+ Models Every Manager Needs to Know | by Marcel van Assen, Gerben Van den Berg, Paul Pietersma Jerry I. Porras is the Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he has served as associate dean for academic affairs and as the director of several executive programs on organizational change. Patoff enmeshes Elaine and Craig further and further in his morally compromising web, probing their weaknesses, tempting them with the fulfilment of their hearts’ desires, all under the guise of making the company a more efficient machine and fulfilling Sang’s purported ambitions for it. The fact that the pair have seen a tape of the new guy requiring Sang to literally and metaphorically swallow some nasty business during an unsolicited meeting before his death armours them less strongly against Patoff’s blandishments than you might think. But maybe forcible fellatio is now de rigueur in LA and tech firms. I’m very out of the loop.If you want to realize your mission with your business, you can’t do it all alone. In The Science Of Dream Teams, Mike Zani teaches you how to find the perfect people for your business — and then, how to optimize your team so that everyone is at peak performance. A must-read for any consultant serious about growing their business with the right people. Also, it's about being able to appreciate the boundaries of an idea. A single case study doesn't provide any insight about hypotheticals: Sales & Marketing teaches you how to apply the 80/20 principle to solve your business problems. Whether you’re having traffic issues, sales issues, or revenue issues, this book will teach you how to do more of what works and less of what doesn’t. Very few consultants find sales and marketing easy — and this book will help you make sense of these critical aspects of your business.