The perfect resource for consultants, updated for a transformed and rapidly evolving market In the newly revised second edition of the Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, best-selling author and consultant Peter Block delivers an invaluable companion to the fourth edition of his popular Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise. In the book, you’ll find an expansive toolkit you can draw on for information and guidance in the midst of your next consulting engagement. It’s a just-in-time literary aid that you can read from front-to-back, or one you can grab and skip to a specific thread or theme you need to read about right now. In the book, you’ll discover: How the flawless consulting skills are being applied in a wide variety of situations by people with unique and different ways of bringing their gifts in the world. Just like you. How to act on what you know to use a variety of approaches to create experiences aligned with your intent and strategy How to view resistance as an ally instead of a problem to be solved or overcome. An invaluable collection of resources for consultants everywhere, Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, 2nd edition will rapidly become your most used and dog-eared reference for everyday consulting engagements.

Table of Contents:
Welcome The Icons I No Fast and Easy Way  1 Flawless — M. J. Wheatley 2 Transformation: Slow, Small, and Low Cost — Dan Joyner 3 Risk Is Where You Find It — Peter Block 4 Consultant, Flawed — Ken Murphy II The Complexity of Advice 5 Partners for Possibility — Louise van Rhyn 6 Changing Focus — Patrick Dolan 7 Be Careful Who You Ask — Andrea Markowitz 8 Dealing with Resistance — Phil Grosnick III The Power of the Question 9 Flawless Goes to Parliament — Joe Maalouf         10 A Cautionary Tale — Jill Janov 11 Change Is in the Details — Peter Block 12 Talk Is Walk — Peter Koestenbaum 13 So, What’s Working Here? — Elizabeth McGrath  IV Emotions and the Personal 14 From Organization Development to Making Music — Marvin Weisbord      15 One Woman’s Wisdom — Rosemarie Barbeau 16 Sneaking the Spirit In — John Schuster  V Valuing Capacities 17 Consultant for the Classroom — Ward Mailliard and Peter Block 18 Talking with Sled Dogs: Leading from Behind — Sam Magill 19 Investing in Our Humanity: Women’s Leadership Collaborative — Nancy Voss VI Integrating Strategy and Experience 20 The Engagement Paradigm — Dick and Emily Axelrod 21 Unleashing the Magic in Organizations — Paul Tolchinsky, Kathie Dannemiller, and Sylvia James 22 Nancy’s Advice — Nancy Sanchez 23 Anonymous Interviews? Definitely Yes and No — Neale Clapp and Liz Clapp O’Connor 24 Community: Once upon a Time in a Place Called Home — David and Carole Schwinn 25 How Is Who Doing? — Peter Block VII No Masks No Bargains 26 Proximal Health: A Surgeon’s Perspective — Paul Uhlig 27 My Worst Consulting Nightmare — Amy Katz 28 Seven Questions to the Most Frequently Asked Answers — Peter Block      Postscript Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments About the Author Index