The Ultimate Consultant - (Ultimate Consultant Series) by Alan Weiss (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Ultimate Consultant--the first book in a series written for experienced practitioners--is filled with helpful interviews and vignettes from an array of successful consultants from around the world, and offers the templates, examples, information, and tools you need to transform your business.

This essential, hands-on resource includes:
* Forty tips that can increase your fees--tomorrow
* Ten tested techniques for springboarding to potential clients
* Information on how you can make money while you sleep with newsletters, audio and video, commercial and self-publishing
* Ten-criteria to test peer-level collaborators
* The simplest, most effective time management tool ever
* 50 techniques to enhance life balance

With this indispensable resource as your guide you can learn how to become an ultimate consultant and take your business to new heights!

From the Back Cover

The Ultimate Consultant is a hands-on resource written for successful consultants (and those who want to be!) who are ready to turn it up a notch and watch their businesses grow to new heights. The Ultimate Consultant goes beyond the commonplace advice of how to get started or get to the next level and acts as a practical field guide for consultants who already have a thriving practice. Filled with down-to-earth advice that you can use to improve your practice immediately, The Ultimate Consultant shows how you can: ? Control the nature of business you accept ? Choose your clients ? Increase your income ? Find work and interactions that are constantly stimulating and educational

Review Quotes

"...a source of much wisdom..." (Supply Management, 15 November, 2001)

"...the methodical presentation of ideas, in a readable way, makes this book commendable..." (Professional Manager, January 2002)

"...if you want loads of useful advice...this is the book for you..." (Training Journal, July 2003)

About the Author

ALAN WEISS consultant, speaker, and author-is the founder and CEO of Summit Consulting Group, Inc. His clients have included Merck, Hewlett-Packard, State Street Corp., Fleet Bank, Coldwell Banker, and Merrill Lynch. He is adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Rhode Island where he teaches a course on advanced consulting skills.