Dear all,
Can you please share your reading list for consulants?
I will start with a book that helped me understand the core of consulting as a business.
Books
- David H. Maister: The Trusted Advisor
Websites
- www.consultancy.co.uk
Magazines
- WirtschaftsWoche (German)
Feel free to copy and expand the list.
Reading List for Consultants
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Other interesting reads would be:
- The pyramid principle by Barbara Minto
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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives by Carl W.Stern
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Consulting: A Practitioner's Perspective by Mohan Kancharla
Good luck.
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Hi,
We actually did some research on this as we wanted to know the same.
From a total of 199 Consulting Books reviewed and ranked, we concluded to a Top 20 of Most Recommended Consulting Books that appear on most of the Best Consulting Books lists.
The top 5 on the list is:
- The McKinsey Way – Using the Techniques of the World’s Top Strategic Consultants to Help You and Your Business
- The Trusted Advisor
- Case Interview Secrets: A Former McKinsey Interviewer Reveals How to Get Multiple Job Offers in Consulting
- The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
- Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
The full list can be found at:
https://www.blog.consultants500.com/consulting/top-20-best-consulting-books-recommended-times/
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In my opinion, the best book that truly describes management consulting as a business and profession would be:
"Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession" by the International Labour Office and edited by Milan Kubr.
Bear in mind, however, that the book is immense (roughly 900 pages) but extremely thorough.
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The McKinsey Way by Ethan M. Rasiel
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I also like to use Linkedin, I browse there and for example Im following "Management Consulting" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/feed/channel/management_consulting), sometimes they share interesting articles.
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