Flawless Consulting By Peter Block

When I think about consulting prior to this class I had a little knowledge about it I have more insight now after I started reading Flawless Consulting by Peter Block who seemed to have a great sense of humor in the first chapters. I only knew the concept of consultant on my experiences as a fashion consultant which I think it is totally different from what I am going to learn from this course. However I think there is similarities to them for instance, they both require a high level of communication with clients, the art of giving your opinion and ideas on the situations at hand, you work hard to show evidence of success that your work actually paid off, you do your best to make your clients happy and you got the ability to understand client’s expectation and match them and that leads to also the ability to match the deadlines. Theses are crucial skill for consulting firms or consultants in general I think.
But I mean in a matter of power, a consultant job in my understanding is to convince the clients by selling/brand their persona and convince that they need his/her recommendations which gives the consultant a mutual power perhaps. However, after reading the book, the author explained it differently " the key to understand the consultant role is to see the difference between a consultant and a manger" which indicates that a consultant might has direct control but that puts you in a manger role what he called it "surrogate manager". Moreover, he emphasis on how its crucial to be aware when you have the direct responsibility or