Book Reviews - Joy at Work; Make the Rules or Your Clients Will; The Future of Work

In 1982 Dennis Bakke and Roger Sant, coworkers at the Mellon Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Formed Applied Energy Services (later AES) with a $60,000 bank loan and some private investment. Their idea was to create an enterprise that valued people in all contexts—as employees, customers, suppliers, and society in general.

Learn How You Affect Your Client’s Bottom Line

As a consultant, you may never di­rectly raise financing for your clients. However, you are integral to their fi­nancial health. Your value to your cli­ent, every piece of advice you give, and every billable hour you invoice is judged on your value to the bottom line.