Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

Summary

Block treats consulting as a relationship and contracting practice rather than the transfer of expert answers.

Implications for practice

Systems interventions fail as often through contracting, ownership and implementation relations as through weak technical models.

Key distinctions

• consulting relationship versus expert delivery
• authentic contracting versus covert control
• engagement versus compliance

Historical development

• organisation development
• consulting practice

Ideas it depends on

• helping relationships
• organisation development

Further developments

• consulting and facilitation practice

Connections to practice

• contracting
• feedback
• implementation
• stakeholder work

Common confusions

• It is not a systems methodology; it supports the intervention relationship around one.

Further checks

• Link to helping, facilitation and power traditions.

Recorded connections

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Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/publication_flawless_consulting/

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