The Consulting Bible: How to Launch and Grow a Seven-Figure Consulting Business 2nd Edition

I got this book for class. The format was creatively put together. Relevant material that I can use in my business.

Alan Weiss' expertise and experience is so well laid out in this book. He backs up any contrarian statement with compelling evidence and/or relevant examples that clearly illustrate his point. As a bonus, he has embedded significant leadership coaching as he guides consultants on how to become trusted advisors to the client leaders who hire them.

This was the first book I have read on consulting and found the author's approach and advice of great value. The author tells you what you should do - but even more importantly, why you should take his advice. Highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in consulting or considering a career transition.

Over the years, Alan Weiss has helped countless consultants build successful practices. Unlike other authors who rest on their laurels, Alan constantly revises his books to incorporate his latest thinking. This new version of The Consulting Bible will help you succeed faster.

Although the focus is on management consulting, there is a lot of good advice here for freelancers in any field.

Whenever you see the description for anything that reads: "everything you need to know," most of the time you gloss over it knowing it never gets delivered. Except Alan always delivers and this new addition of "The Consulting Bible" is no exception.

I am someone who has years of experience in the markets, technology product management , Fintech, strategic planning, tactical execution, etc. I was exploring the idea of doing some consulting given my plethora of experience. While the book contains a lot of good information, the author (who is a very successful consultant I admit), seems to advocate the most difficult path to enter the business. Maybe the book is designed to show the way to becoming a consultant earning tens of millions of dollars a year. But for those of us who do not have that lofty goal in mind, the path he lays out seems to be the most difficult possible road to enter the field. I’m not interested in creating the next McKinsey. I simply wanted to do some consulting to provide additional income as I near retirement. Although I know this is possible, this book has discouraged me from that goal. I will continue searching for other material and authors that provide insight into that goal of mine.

Great material and great reality checks! There is great overlap here vs my 20+ years of corporate experience as well.