Commit & Deliver: On the Frontlines of Management Consulting
Consider this guide your “starter kit” for the world of business, no matter where you are in your career path or in which industry.

If you’re a young person just beginning your career path, or a seasoned professional considering a new direction, there’s one crucial key to success: Insider advice.

That is, learning from the best so that you have a grasp on how to navigate your career before you make the plunge. The good news? This book makes it easy.

In Commit & Deliver, Cyrus Freidheim—management consultant, two-time CEO of public companies, author of The Trillion-Dollar Enterprise, and veteran of more than thirty corporate and nonprofit boards—provides vital mentorship in memoir form. Using the framework of his storied career, Freidheim explores how career and personal decisions can be prepared for and made, how to grow professionally, and how to think through complex business problems from a practitioner’s perspective.

Commit & Deliver provides intimate insight into what management consultants do, how they interact with their corporate clients, and what it takes to become a good consultant. It paints a picture of what life is like at the bottom of the business career ladder, what is expected, and what one must bring to the table. Most important, it shows you what it takes to move up the ladder in virtually any industry. Finally, he walks you through preparing for and living a productive retirement.
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Commit & Deliver: On the Frontlines of Management Consulting
Consider this guide your “starter kit” for the world of business, no matter where you are in your career path or in which industry.

If you’re a young person just beginning your career path, or a seasoned professional considering a new direction, there’s one crucial key to success: Insider advice.

That is, learning from the best so that you have a grasp on how to navigate your career before you make the plunge. The good news? This book makes it easy.

In Commit & Deliver, Cyrus Freidheim—management consultant, two-time CEO of public companies, author of The Trillion-Dollar Enterprise, and veteran of more than thirty corporate and nonprofit boards—provides vital mentorship in memoir form. Using the framework of his storied career, Freidheim explores how career and personal decisions can be prepared for and made, how to grow professionally, and how to think through complex business problems from a practitioner’s perspective.

Commit & Deliver provides intimate insight into what management consultants do, how they interact with their corporate clients, and what it takes to become a good consultant. It paints a picture of what life is like at the bottom of the business career ladder, what is expected, and what one must bring to the table. Most important, it shows you what it takes to move up the ladder in virtually any industry. Finally, he walks you through preparing for and living a productive retirement.
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Commit & Deliver: On the Frontlines of Management Consulting

Commit & Deliver: On the Frontlines of Management Consulting

by Cyrus Freidheim
Commit & Deliver: On the Frontlines of Management Consulting

Commit & Deliver: On the Frontlines of Management Consulting

by Cyrus Freidheim

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Overview

Consider this guide your “starter kit” for the world of business, no matter where you are in your career path or in which industry.

If you’re a young person just beginning your career path, or a seasoned professional considering a new direction, there’s one crucial key to success: Insider advice.

That is, learning from the best so that you have a grasp on how to navigate your career before you make the plunge. The good news? This book makes it easy.

In Commit & Deliver, Cyrus Freidheim—management consultant, two-time CEO of public companies, author of The Trillion-Dollar Enterprise, and veteran of more than thirty corporate and nonprofit boards—provides vital mentorship in memoir form. Using the framework of his storied career, Freidheim explores how career and personal decisions can be prepared for and made, how to grow professionally, and how to think through complex business problems from a practitioner’s perspective.

Commit & Deliver provides intimate insight into what management consultants do, how they interact with their corporate clients, and what it takes to become a good consultant. It paints a picture of what life is like at the bottom of the business career ladder, what is expected, and what one must bring to the table. Most important, it shows you what it takes to move up the ladder in virtually any industry. Finally, he walks you through preparing for and living a productive retirement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781953295675
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Publication date: 10/12/2021
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,069,956
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Cyrus Freidheim’s 55-year business career began at Union Carbide Corp. and Price Waterhouse, then Carnegie Tech’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, followed by Ford Motor, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Chiquita Brands International and Sun Times Media Group. Along the way, he served on seventeen corporate boards and an equal number of not-for-profit boards, serving as chairman on five. He worked in more than twenty-five countries and every continent except Antarctica. The majority of his clients and the companies he ran were undergoing major transformations or turnarounds. He is also the author of The Trillion Dollar Enterprise.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Chrysler on the Brink 9

Chapter 2 We All Start at the Bottom 25

Chapter 3 Cars! Cars! Cars! 43

Chapter 4 What Is Management Consulting? 59

Chapter 5 Sin, Oui, Si, Ja, Da, Hai, Areh, Yes! 77

Chapter 6 Back in the USA 111

Chapter 7 From Consultant to CEO: "Yes, We Have Bananas" 137

Chapter 8 Catch a Falling Sun: "The World Is Made of Stories, Not Atoms" 153

Chapter 9 Life in the Boardroom 169

Chapter 10 Retirement: "Better to Wear Out Than Rust Out" 205

Epilogue You Are Your Most Important Project 213

Acknowledgments 221

Index 225

About the Author 241

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