House of Lies
How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time

If you buy a cookbook, you don't want to read about gardening. If you buy a book that promises to tell you how "management consultants steal your watch and then tell you the time" you want to read juicy stories, true examples, and some tips on how to protect you from consultants. Too bad Kihn's book......more

Very Disapointed I was a big fan of the television show and not a fan of consultants, so this book would have seemed ideal to me, but it never delivered on its promise. I was hoping for fun stories of big consulting jobs with nothing to show, but 90% of the book is just the author whining about how m......more

Absolutely hilarious! Feels like a consulting version of Leveraged Sellout. For a more "insider" read I'd strongly recommend "Consulting Demons" by Pinault.......more

Extremely accurate representation of the nuances of corporate consulting with the hilariously bang on specifics......more

There are over half a million management consultants around the world, and they all gripe when asked the single common question wherever they go: "What is it that you actually do?". Well, they are capable for entering in any organization, monitor its business & people for a period like an big-brothe......more