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  • 1.  MBA for Consultants

    Posted 11-01-1997 12:19
    >Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:26:11 -0800
    >From: Charles Vance <cvance@POPMAIL.LMU.EDU>
    >Subject: Management Consulting Syllabi?
    >
    >We are developing a new MBA course on Management Consulting. Do any of you
    >have a tried and true syllabus that you could share with me? What are your
    >favorite course texts/readings? Thanks much!

    Charles,
    The recent book by Robert H. Schaffer is excellent. Sorry I cannot be more
    specific but I just discovered that my copy has disappeared. He also wrote
    The Breakthrough Strategy,
    Using short-term successes to build the high performance organization,
    Ballinger Publishing, 1988, so maybe you can foretrack from there.

    I strongly encourage a session on ethics, as well. Both the ethics of
    consulting and the consultant as an encourager of ethical behavior by
    managers. Search for the Center for Ethics with your favorite web engine.

    Hope this helps. Sorry I do not have more specific pointers handy.

    Jack Ring
    Innovation Management
    32712 N. 70th St.
    Scottsdale, AZ 85262-7143
    602-488-4615