Robert J. Haworth
Robert Haworth’s Don’t Sign That Contract, Charlie! is the second business management book in The Charlie Series. His first book, Smell the Bacon, Charlie!, is an executive’s guide to strategic organizational change. This book is an executive’s guide to hiring and managing a consulting firm to assist with the successful implementation of organizational change.Hiring a consulting firm can be a daunting and somewhat scary process. If you believe the current research on this topic, the success rate for projects where consultants are involved is around 50%, which hopefully you believe is totally unacceptable.Haworth brings his forty years of experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, CEO, and college professor into a content-rich, serious-yethumorous, and easy-to-read book that provides great advice and insight into engaging a consulting firm to assist you in your mission-critical organizational change initiative. Don’t Sign That Contract, Charlie! takes you through the entire process of engaging a consulting firm, from 'Understand ’Em' to 'Hire ’Em' to 'Manage ’Em,' and, finally, to 'Get Rid of ’Em.' Through each of these parts of the book, Haworth provides firsthand experience, dos and don’ts, and engaging stories that will guide you and your organization through a successful relationship with your consulting firm. 6
