If I may give you some advice: the unwritten rules of successful consulting

Do you want to become the best advisor in your field? Then you have to be as critical as you are stubborn: trust your own advice, make no concessions and do not take a client at face value. A good advisor is not seduced by sweet talk and follows his own plan. In this book about advising you will learn nothing about project management, conversation skills or advisory strategies. This book describes something much more important: the unwritten rules of the profession. If you want to advise in the premier league, you better know how the game is played: - Clients always lie - Watch out for budgets - You only understand it when you can explain it - Be happy when they don't pay - Keep quiet until the grave - Dare to say no to a job Merger and acquisition expert Ab van Urk advised hundreds of companies as managing partner of Rembrandt Mergers & Acquisitions and taught countless young consultants the trade. He is now director of investment company MBO & Groei Fonds. The royalties for this book are donated to Barcode for Life and United World Colleges Nederland.