It must have been some kind of voodoo or divine intervention that unexpectedly put me in the audience of a presentation by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles a few years back. It was their presentation that inspired the format of this book and gave me the insight to finally start and complete it.
On Friday June 8, 2012 Friesens Printers of Altona, Canada delivered the first 545 copies of The Consultant with Pink Hair. About 70 are in limited release right now with folks that helped with the production of the book or to whom I promised a copy to at some point over the last 10 years of telling people I was writing a book. Once the new BR website is in place it will be released for sale on Amazon and in select bookstores across North America - likely this September.
The hardcover book is 198 pages and e-versions will be available for most e-readers as well.
In case you're interested the book tells the story of Andrew Braun and Lou Di Angelo partners in a fictional management consulting practice struggling with the real life challenges of being "just another consulting firm" in a crowded market place.
They battle low margins, late nights responding to crazy RFPs, confusing branding advice, and the pressure of too much revenue coming from one big client - and the disaster when that client walks away.
As usual there is plenty of RFP bashing and as promised in an earlier post the bashing isn't limited to the buyer side of that process.
