The Executive's Guide to Consultants

Maximize Your Return on Expertise

Research shows a high proportion of consultants fail to deliver results on time, on budget, and on target. Rare is the project that exceeds your expectations.

But help is here. The Executive's Guide to Consultants explains how to ensure that every project delivers measurable benefits every time. This book will help you find experts, invest wisely, accelerate change, and achieve your most important goals by tapping into the genius of others.

The Executive's Guide to Consultants contains breakthrough ideas covered by no other book, including:

Sophisticated new contract structures that maximize your ROI
Essential methods for reducing project risk
Cutting-edge techniques for making change stick after the consultant leaves
You will also learn to:

Spot "chameleons" and other low-quality consultants who peddle tired ideas and deliver disappointing outcomes
Get better results faster, while lowering fees
Find the ideal consultant, coach, agency, or advisor for your precise situation
Enforce accountability with outside experts and your own internal team

Imagine if you could collect the wisdom of dozens of the country's top CEOs, combine it with the experience of a hall-of-fame consultant, and add a bucketful of unconventional thinking. You'd have The Executive's Guide to Consultants .

Easy to read and packed with examples, checklists, templates, and guidelines, this book is the ultimate toolkit for maximizing your ROI from outside experts.
Get extraordinary results from every consultant you hire

"An extraordinary book. Clear, comprehensive, and eminently readable, it is THE book on how you can extract true business value from outside experts." -- Scott Cotherman, Chairman, TBWA\WorldHealth, subsidiary of Omnicom Group, Inc.
"This is the Master Class for those who are smart, innovative, ahead of the pack, and who intend to stay that way. If you're not yet in that league, you should readthis book twice." -- Alan