First, I want to thank all the people who have bought my books so far. You’ve made an old man very happy and I hope I added something to your career.

Traveling the Consulting Road: Career Wisdom for New Consultants, Candidates, and their mentors is selling more now that my second book has been released.

The target audience is right there in the subtitle and I have had interest and sales from university and business school consulting clubs. I’ve heard from some senior consultants saying “I wish I’d known this stuff,” But I haven’t had someone tell me “I used it in training my mentees.

A beta reader, a “friend,” told me I wrote for exceptions to the adage, “Young consultants won’t listen and old consultants don’t read.” The niche turned out to be larger than he imagined.

I’ve been told, (yes, by the same friend) that the target audience for Change Leader? Who Me? Hard-Earned Wisdom for Those New to Leading Change is less obvious. So I thought I’d spell it out:

Do you know anyone who:

Is an early to mid-career consultant,

• who has seen his best work not implemented by the client, or
• has figured out that successful change is about leadership, or
• wishes she had paid more attention in Organization Behavior class in business school, because success in consulting is about leading people, whether the client’s people or the consulting team.

If you know anyone like that, Change Leader? Who Me? Hard-Earned Wisdom for Those New to Leading Change might be a good gift.

You see, I was like that. I got my MBA and was very good at OB, but kept it a secret because I thought no consulting recruiter would take me seriously. When I compared two projects one very successful and one that went nowhere, I realized the difference was the leader and I went back to school to learn about leading organizational change from Dr. Warner Burke.

I still didn’t get it, until a client called me a bad change leader and I responded “Change Leader? Who Me?”

I wrote this book for those like that younger me to help them avoid the pain and make him or her better faster.

Or

Do you know anyone who:

Is inside a company and recognized as being pretty good at getting stuff done,

• who has just been asked to run an innovation initiative, or take some cost out with Lean or Six Sigma, or run a post-acquisition integration team, or
• was involved in one of those initiatives that failed miserably, and fears that next time she might get asked to lead one, or
• recognizes that with the scientific, technological, and geopolitical change that is already visible that leading change is the critical skill of the 21^st

If you know anyone like that, Change Leader? Who Me? Hard-Earned Wisdom for Those New to Leading Change might be a good gift.

Over almost forty years in consulting I worked with leaders, from CEOs to the shop floor or back cubicle, who found themselves in just that position. I trained those leaders, and helped them get up to speed quickly to lead the changes they were assigned. I saw some crash and burn, but I saw some amazing people rise to the occasion. Some jumped two to three levels in the organization as a result.

I wrote this book for those people too. Leading change is not rocket science or brain surgery but there are best and worst practices and I want them to pick the best ones.

So if you know anyone like either of these two types, and they are on your gift list, they might enjoy this book. If they are not on your gift list, please forward this post on to them.

Both books are substantially discounted on Amazon until the first of the year.

Again, thank you to all those who support me and my writing. This makes my retirement fun and meaningful.