Research shows that a high proportion of consultants fail to deliver results on time, on budget, and on target. Rare is the project that exceeds your expectations. This book will help you find experts, invest wisely, accelerate change, and achieve your most important goals by tapping into the genius of others.

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop. In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern...