How to Order: Your Local Bookstore Amazon.com Barnes & Noble On-line Schwartz or call 800-236-7323 CONSULTING The Complete Guide to a Profitable Career ISBN 0-684-18617-9 Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Publishing Company PRAISE FOR THE BOOK This book is the best book on consulting I've ever seen. -- Bruce Henderson founder and chairman emeritus, Boston Consulting Group professor, Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Business The single best primer on the consulting business! In this revised edition of Consulting, Kelley has transformed a useful guide into an indispensable one. -- Paul Laudicina, director, International Policy Center, SRI International of Human Resources The best handbook we know of for consultants is now even better -- an invaluable source of 'how-to' advice. -- Peter and Susan Corning, senior partners, Corning & Associates, Management Consultants Kelley's Consulting is a gold mine of useful information. Both professional and would-be consultants will find lots worth reading. -- Patrick H. Sullivan, senior associate, The MAC Group The best management book of the year. -- California Business Solid advice...Kelley eschews jargon, supplying straightforward facts and encouragement for would-be consultants. -- Booklist Robert Kelley wastes no words in his manual on entering the growing field of professional consultants. All 268 pages of this Scribner book are packed with information. -- UPI BOOK SUMMARY ROBERT E. KELLEY'S Consulting has been described as the best and most comprehensive book on the subject. Hailed by the critics in its original edition, the book is in its 2nd edition. Consulting continues to be a lucrative, growing industry, practiced by large and small consulting companies and by thousands of solo practitioners. Consulting applies to every occupational field and profession. Businesses, educational institutions, the health care industry, labor unions, the military, government agencies, non-profit organizations, financial firms-they all need and use consultants. Drawing on a study of the consulting profession and his own extensive experience both in consulting and training of consultants, Dr. Kelley provides hard-to-find, incisive information on becoming a consultant, building a consulting practice, and conducting successful consulting projects. He answers such difficult questions as how to set fees, how to find clients, and how to formulate recommendations. Should you become a consultant? Some consultants earn up to four thousand dollars a day. Do you have the kind of expert knowledge for which an individual or business would pay? Using the author's self-assessment exercises, you can gain valuable insights into your chances for success. Subjects include an analysis of the consulting business and of the reader as potential consultant, starting a practice, outfitting an office, fee collecting and staying in business, marketing and selling your services, conducting projects, making recommendations, writing reports, implementing ideas, evaluating your performance, terminating a project, administrating your practice, ethical issues, and malpractice. Consulting is the most up-to-date, authoritative book on a subject that continues to offer the promise of help to clients and hope to individuals who sense for themselves a rewarding new career. Whether you are a prospective buyer of consulting services, a business student, or a person who contemplates becoming a consultant, Consulting is essential reading. Written in clear, accessible language remarkably free of jargon, it is a superb book on a subject that is changing the way we do business. To review another book, click on its picture. Home | What's New | Biography Books | Speeches | Consulting & Research Take Our On-Line Survey | Communicating With Robert Kelley   © Copyright 1998, 2002 by Robert E. Kelley and Consultants to Executives and Organizations, Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be used without express written permission.