Fw: Help with book project

[Peg Holman]

For any who wish to help, please contact Eric.

Peg Holman

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric K. Hatch <hocinc at hocinc@earthlink.net>
To: Peg Holman, Open Space Institute <osi at tmn.com>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:14 AM
Subject: Help with book project


>Hi, Peg.  Would you forward this to your list, and I hope you'll
>contribute yourself!
>
>Help!!!
>
>I've been asked to be a contributing author for a book on outsourcing
>HR, OD, and Training.  ASTD is publishing it this fall.
>
>My chapter is going to be called "Client Traps," and I'd like to ask
>for your input.  I'm looking for examples of all the traps
>consultants and clients fall into, such as thinking you're there to
>help them change, but they really want you to endorse the status quo.
>Or you think your client is the head of operations, and it turns out
>to be somebody quite different.  Or you suffer unduly from "scope
>creep."  That sort of thing.  Client-side stories are especially
>welcome, too!
>
>So trot out your war stories and all the clever things you did to
>spot the traps and get out of them.  I'll protect your identity if
>you want to fess up to a few you DIDN'T get out of, and cite you as a
>hero / heroine if you saved the day.
>
>The VERY BEST contribution will get a genuine HOC train whistle as a
>prize, along with a lifetime debt of gratitude from yours truly.
>
>I am on deadline for this project, so PLEASE get your war stories to
>me by April 22.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Eric
>Eric Hatch
>President, Hatch Organizational Consulting
>
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