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It’s A Dog’s Job (But Someone’s Got to Do It) is a candid, humorous, and highly practical look at the world of management consulting — a profession often accused of stealing your watch and telling you the time, or leaving behind masterful PowerPoint presentations without delivering the results clients pay through the nose for.
This book takes a cheeky but serious look at what good consulting really requires. Told through the metaphor of consultants as noble, intelligent, loyal, and occasionally over-excited hounds, it explores the trust, politics, instinct, service, miscommunication, and persistence that shape every successful client engagement.
For consultants, it is a guide to the tricks and traps of the trade, and to becoming genuinely useful rather than merely impressive. For clients, it is a guide to choosing, briefing, managing, and getting the best from the advisors they hire — without being bitten along the way.
Featuring true stories of remarkable client engagements and consulting teams, along with beautiful canine photography, It’s A Dog’s Job is a business book with both bite and heart — and a reminder that the best consultants know never to abuse their trusted role as a client’s best friend.
‘I’ve been both dog and owner – consultant and entrepreneur – starting and running my own businesses. As an ex–McKinsey & Company consultant, I could really relate to the story, which should be mandatory reading in business schools around the world!’
— Rob Fitzpatrick, Technologist and Business-Builder
It’s A Dog’s Job (But Someone’s Got to Do It) is a candid, humorous, and highly practical look at the world of management consulting — a profession often accused of stealing your watch and telling you the time, or leaving behind masterful PowerPoint presentations without delivering the results clients pay through the nose for.
This book takes a cheeky but serious look at what good consulting really requires. Told through the metaphor of consultants as noble, intelligent, loyal, and occasionally over-excited hounds, it explores the trust, politics, instinct, service, miscommunication, and persistence that shape every successful client engagement.
For consultants, it is a guide to the tricks and traps of the trade, and to becoming genuinely useful rather than merely impressive. For clients, it is a guide to choosing, briefing, managing, and getting the best from the advisors they hire — without being bitten along the way.
Featuring true stories of remarkable client engagements and consulting teams, along with beautiful canine photography, It’s A Dog’s Job is a business book with both bite and heart — and a reminder that the best consultants know never to abuse their trusted role as a client’s best friend.
‘I’ve been both dog and owner – consultant and entrepreneur – starting and running my own businesses. As an ex–McKinsey & Company consultant, I could really relate to the story, which should be mandatory reading in business schools around the world!’
— Rob Fitzpatrick, Technologist and Business-Builder