Consider this guide your starter kit for the world of business no matter where you are in your
career path or in which industry. If you re a young person just beginning your career path or
a seasoned professional considering a new direction there s one crucial key to success:
Insider advice. That is learning from the best so that you have a grasp on how to navigate
your career before you make the plunge. The good news? This book makes it easy. In Commit &
Deliver Cyrus Freidheim management consultant two-time CEO of public companies author of The
Trillion-Dollar Enterprise and veteran of more than thirty corporate and nonprofit boards
provides vital mentorship in memoir form. Using the framework of his storied career Freidheim
explores how career and personal decisions can be prepared for and made how to grow
professionally and how to think through complex business problems from a practitioner s
perspective. Commit & Deliver provides intimate insight into what management consultants do
how they interact with their corporate clients and what it takes to become a good consultant.
It paints a picture of what life is like at the bottom of the business career ladder what is
expected and what one must bring to the table. Most important it shows you what it takes to
move up the ladder in virtually any industry. Finally he walks you through preparing for and
living a productive retirement.
