Consulting Career

In The Freelance Bible, award-winning entrepreneur and freelancer Alison Grade guides you through absolutely everything that you need to know to start your successful self-employed life. Starting from day one, she will help you develop your personal brand, pick up the financial essentials, grow your client base, manage your work-life balance, negotiate deals and value your time as you become more established. The Freelance Bible is your complete guide to turning your talent into a fulfilling and sustainable career.

From the marketing consultant down the street to the home based "mompreneur," they are America's new economic icons: the job-hopping, tech-savvy, fulfillment-seeking, independent workers. This entertaining and provocative account of the new frontier - by Fast Company contributor Pink - will change your thinking...and maybe even change your life.

How would you like to achieve unimaginable success, attain unspeakable wealth, and be successful in life and relationships? Listen to this digitally mastered collection and learn how you can enjoy the life that you want, experiencing all of the success and happiness that you envision, by controlling and managing your thoughts and actions.

Because if you’re reading this now, you’ve probably been dying for a reason to strike out on your own. To build out that side hustle that you’ve been too busy to grow. To turn that business idea you’ve been dreaming about into a full-time money-making reality.

Whether you’re a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don’t need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training videos. All you really need is a learning strategy, a good production plan, and a smartphone camera. Informed by his 30-year career in training and media, including his time as learning executive with the BBC, author Jonathan Halls is committed to best practices in video production that will actually help your learners to learn, and without a giant strain on your resources.

Augmented and Virtual Reality for Entrepreneurs is your definitive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of AR and VR technologies to drive innovation and unlock new opportunities. Whether you’re a startup founder or a seasoned entrepreneur, this book provides practical insights and actionable strategies to integrate these cutting-edge tools into your business model.

Whether you want to build an authority-based service business, monetize your skills through coaching, or tap into the global e-commerce boom, this audiobook bundle gives you a step-by-step blueprint for success.

A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of McKinsey & Company, America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, told by one of the nation's leading financial journalists. In The Firm, Duff McDonald uncovers how these high-powered, high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts. With unrivaled access to company documents and current and former employees, McDonald reveals the inner workings of what just might be the most influential private organization in America.

Congratulations! You've been hired by a client to get something done. Presumably, you have some sort of expertise in the area, you have someone on your team who is knowledgeable, or you'll be hiring somebody who does. This book provides some of the lessons I've learned over my 35-year career about managing consulting projects.

In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place.

Stop feeling “salesy” and start getting paid for your expertise—without the burnout or the B. S. You’ve been giving your brilliance away for free—or for far less than it’s worth. You’re checking your bank account with anxiety, wiping tears off the steering wheel in the grocery store parking lot, wondering how it got this hard. Selling Your Expertise: A Practical Guide for Women to Confidently Sell Their Skills is not just another sales book—it’s your permission slip to finally make money doing what you love without compromising who you are.

Build your own consulting business, so you can replace the full-time income your family needs, while living life on your terms. It’s a great time to be a consultant because of the changing business environment. The Great Recession, the pandemic, and 10,000 baby boomers reaching retirement age annually are a few of the market shockwaves creating unprecedented demand. Change your perspective, and change your world. Leverage your career expertise to generate the income you need, and live life on your terms.

Andrew Sobel offers a proven, 100-day plan for conquering 14 tough client development challenges and growing your client base. He's encapsulated 25 years of unique research, including personal interviews with over 3,000 top executives, into a practical road map for winning more new clients and growing your existing relationships. You'll learn specific strategies to move confidently and predictably from a first meeting to a signed contract, and discover the agenda-setting techniques that create a steady stream of sole-source business.

For over 15 years, consultants, both internal and external, have relied on Peter Block's landmark best seller, Flawless Consulting, to learn how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. Using illustrative examples, case studies, and exercises, the author, one of the most important and well known in his field, offers his legendary warmth and insight throughout this much-awaited second edition.

This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work.

The Enterprise Selling Handbook is a field guide to selling to the largest businesses - enterprises. If you're new to enterprise selling, or find the additional complexity of enterprise deals intimidating, this book is for you! In this audiobook, you'll learn how enterprise businesses buy differently from other business types, and how to make that work to your advantage. All of the key details are covered, from how to present your offering to a step-by-step explanation of what to do (and expect!) at each stage of the deal.

Step Up, Lead Boldly, Influence with Purpose. What separates ordinary individuals from extraordinary leaders? It’s not just talent or intelligence, it’s the ability to take ownership, inspire others, and lead with confidence in any situation. In The Dynamic Leader, David Cloninger delivers a powerful, action-driven guide for aspiring leaders, young professionals, and entrepreneurs who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level. Whether you’re leading a team, launching a business, or stepping into leadership for the first time, this book gives you the tools to lead with impact.

In this hands-on successor to the popular book The Trusted Advisor, you'll find answers to pervasive questions about trust and leadership - such as how to develop business with trust, nurture trust-based relationships, build and run a trustworthy organization, and develop your trust skill set. This pragmatic workbook delivers everyday tools, exercises, resources, and actionable to-do lists for the wide range of situations a trusted advisor inevitably encounters.

Are you eager to start a blog and online business but are feeling lost? No matter what type of blog you are starting, there are some core components you need to focus on if you want to make money with your blog. The Blog Startup introduces you to these nonnegotiable core components in the form of bite-sized strategies and pro tips so you won't find yourself a year later wondering what went wrong.

John Burns and Chris Porter wrote this book to help make demographic trends easier to understand, quantify, and anticipate. Listeners of this audiobook will have a huge competitive advantage because they will be making decisions with facts, and they will be better able to adjust their strategies when unanticipated events shift prevailing trends.