Smarter Consulting: How to start up and succeed as an independent consultant

Acknowledgements

As always there are lots of people who ‘influence’ a book. I suppose in this case it is the hundreds – probably thousands – of independents I have met over the years. However, I would like to thank some of the ‘usual suspects’ whom I always seem to ask for their opinion: this must mean I think they are pretty smart! To save them arguing about who has had the most influence on me, I have placed them in alphabetical order.

Rai Barbour: a towering artistic talent, who carved a second great independent career in his seventies + Cliff Dennett: for showing me how the new generation is going to do it + Mike Devlin: for thousands of ideas – trust your sell-out to ‘big’ business doesn’t last too long + Hanneke Frese ...