Don’t Sign that Contract, Charlie! An Executive’s Guide to Hiring and Managing Consultants

Description

Book Description:

Robert Haworth’s Don’t Sign That Contract, Charlie! is the second business management book in The Charlie Series. His first book, Smell the Bacon, Charlie!, is an executive’s guide to strategic organizational change. This book is an executive’s guide to hiring and managing a consulting firm to assist with the successful implementation of organizational change.

Hiring a consulting firm can be a daunting and somewhat scary process. If you believe the current research on this topic, the success rate for projects where consultants are involved is around 50%, which hopefully you believe is totally unacceptable.

Haworth brings his forty years of experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, CEO, and college professor into a content-rich, serious-yet humorous, and easy-to-read book that provides great advice and insight into engaging a consulting firm to assist you in your mission-critical organizational change initiative.  Don’t Sign That Contract, Charlie! takes you through the entire process of engaging a consulting firm, from “Understand ’Em” to “Hire ’Em” to “Manage ’Em,” and, finally, to “Get Rid of ’Em.” Through each of these parts of the book, Haworth provides firsthand experience, dos and don’ts, and engaging stories that will guide you and your organization through a successful relationship with your consulting firm.

About the Author

ROBERT J. HAWORTH has retired from two highly successful careers and is now embarking on his third as an author of business management books.

Robert’s first career encompassed three decades as a management consultant working with large, complex organizations on major organizational change initiatives. These included implementing new technologies, business processes, and business model improvements. After working for three large global consulting firms, Robert started his own firm and successfully grew it to national prominence over a decade. During this three-decade consulting career, Robert has been inside more companies than he can remember. (This has nothing to do with memory loss, really.) Within these clients, he worked at every level and with all types of people, or, as he would say, “from the receiving dock to the boardroom.”

After selling his company, he embarked on his second career as a college professor. He taught the topics that he is passionate about, including what he did in the real world: business management, strategic planning, and entrepreneurship. Robert will tell you that, though he loved his consulting “gig,” being in the classroom with his students from all over the world was the highlight of his career. His students must have thought the same, because the business school senior class voted Robert their favorite professor year after year.

Now, Robert is beginning his third career as an author.

If you want to learn more about Robert, his career, and his journey, please visit his website at www.robertjhaworth.com.