A Recession Survival Kit for Small and Medium Consultancies: A Practical Guide with Twenty Plus Tips for Surviving a Recession - Softcover

Taylor, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955413249 ISBN 13: 9780955413247

Publisher: dashdot Enterprises Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book was written in 2008 and has a generic outlook as well as being highly pertinent to the current credit crunch induced recession. The contents are comprehensive, the style is pacey and punchy, the checklists are practical, the cartoon characters are witty yet sympathetic. In this volume readers can join Oliver Aichbee (Ollie) from a design-based SMC with his colleagues and advisors as they do some thinking and research about a possible recession and then consider over twenty Top Kit Tips which can be adopted or adapted or rejected or confirmed as taking place to form the basis of their bespoke Recession Survival Kit. And readers can do the same. There is a wealth of sensible ideas with explanations, listings, illustrations and a checklist to formulate and prioritise a kit from scratch or confirm that current proposals are on the right lines. Positive SMCs may also use the survival processes to rationalise, refocus or energise partially or wholly. There will be casualties from any recession so that is addressed also. This book is also being promoted through a series of talks and courses using this title and linked to recovery topics which are in development as a separate volume.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Taylor is an experienced, front line project manager and an original co-founder of Buro Four, one of the most successful and respected management outfits in the UK.

Tom is the principal of dashdot - a consulting management vehicle.

Tom has been producing practical, original and entertaining proposals, booklets and documents for over thirty years - he started young! - together with a variety of talks and courses.

He is an active participant of APM - Association for Project Management - including Branch Chairman, Council Member, Executive Board Member, Chairman and Vice President.

From the Back Cover

Small and medium consultancies (SMCs) are essential to a vibrant UK economy - for creativity, employment, wealth creation, entrepreneurship, growth, professionalism, civilisation, etc.
There is talk of a recessionary cycle - of anticipation, arrival, bumping along the low points and then recovery - which will affect everyone.
For most businesses it is not possible to avoid a recession but it may be possible to survive.
As usual the SMCs will be left to their own devices to get through. Previously they will have built up and sustained their specialist consultancies through their own initiative, hard work, leadership, contacts, tenacity and good fortune. And so they will need these same characteristics to determine how to survive a "downturn in economic circumstances."
All SMCs are different in their needs, circumstances and aspirations and these may change for each stage of a recession, stutter, dip or crash. So there are neither silver bullet nor one-size-fits-all solutions.
In this volume readers can join Oliver Aichbee (Ollie) from a design-based SMC with his colleagues and advisors as they do some thinking and research about a possible recession and then consider over twenty Top Kit Tips which can be adopted or adapted or rejected or confirmed as taking place to form the basis of their bespoke Recession Survival Kit. And you can do the same.
There is a wealth of sensible ideas with explanations, listings, illustrations and a checklist to formulate and prioritise a kit from scratch or confirm that current proposals are on the right lines. Positive SMCs may also use the survival processes to rationalise, refocus or energise - partially or wholly.

Edition details

• Publisher: dashdot Enterprises Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955413249
• ISBN 13: 9780955413247
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Rhodes Ed
• Number of pages: 64