J.T. Patten has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Big 4 Management Consultant Confessions: How Not to Screw up a Consulting Project.
Big 4 Management Consultant Confessions: How Not to Screw up a Consulting Project
Summary
You or your company can be screwed if you are hiring consultants without a plan to manage their bid for the sale, statement of work, and overall engagement. Management consulting is supposed to be the practice of helping organizations improve their performance, processes, and efficiencies or to manage risk, mitigate financial threats, and leverage the latest and greatest in technology and human minds.
Reality can be another story. Learn from a seasoned risk and compliance, fraud examiner, and process improvement consultant who has worked for over 12 years in three of the "Big Four" consultancies on how you and your company can mitigate corporate risk when bringing in paid advisors.
This short, anecdotally-based instructional should be required reading for any new consultant company that is considering consulting options or who has consultants in place, project mangers, PPDs, and consulting firm owners. There are risks on both sides that, until now, no-one was talking about. Truths come out in non-disparaging ways, so both parties can better manage their projects. So no one gets screwed.
Learn how to change your consulting engagement habits, manage your project management work more effectively, and guide inexperienced consultants to better productivity for greater success.
©2019 JT Patten Books (P)2019 JT Patten Books
Safe Havens: Primed Charge
Summary
A team of CIA contractors travel to Southeast Asia to investigate a series of bombings that have taken the lives of Tier One Advance Force Operators. When the mission fails, intelligence specialist Sean Havens is sent to the jungles of Burma to determine the missing soldiers' whereabouts. On the ground, Havens learns of an unlikely axis of Russia, China, and Iran that may have plans beyond illicit trafficking. But is this a ruse to mask a global financial market manipulation to fund elections and buy alliances? Out of his element and looking to disrupt the looming global threats, Havens struggles to use his adaptability, guile, and tradecraft, as his personal losses wrestle for attention. His actions may have further consequences when the Shadow Masters learn of his meddling, sending Havens again into the deadly game of secret societies and a New World Order. From Chicago and Fayetteville to Burma, Thailand, and New York, death continues to follow Havens and those in his wake.
©2016 JT Patten and JT Patten Books (P)2016 JT Patten and JT Patten Books
Presidential Retreat: A Sean Havens Black Ops Novel
Summary
To beat an assassin, become an assassin. The deep state isn't pleased with the current president. An assassination would put the Vice President in a prime election position - if intelligence specialist Sean Havens doesn't thwart the power players' agenda. Sent undercover to Martha's Vineyard, a historic presidential summer retreat, Havens is tasked to conduct a recovery under the guise of a routine security assessment in advance of POTUS's arrival. A new threat is exposed forcing Havens into action with no backup save for a mysterious colleague, the Man from Orange, code named "Birddog". Unaware of a conspiracy dating back to our forefathers, Sean Havens is forced to trust old enemies in a twisted plot between the CIA, the Pond, and the upcoming presidential election. But is it Havens himself who is in the cross hairs?
©2020 Scott Swanson (P)2020 Scott Swanson
The Presence of Evil
Summary
The man from orange Intelligence and counter-terrorist expert J. T. Patten uncovers the ultra-top-secret war against terror in his explosive black-ops series.... No mission is impossible Drake Woolf is the perfect throwaway agent - a deadly, invisible force able to handle the blackest of black-ops missions. No one's better when it comes to search and destroy. But his lethal drive feeds a relentless hunger. It's all his handlers at Task Force Orange can do to point him at the right targets. This time, he's up against a massive, global conspiracy. In his deadly crosshairs are a Venezuelan terrorist, hordes of elite Iranian assassins, and a beautiful and wily FBI counterintelligence agent. Drake's aim is flawless, but his judgments are all over the place. If he doesn't get it right this time, it will be Hell on Earth.
©2019 J. T. Patten (P)2019 Tantor
Buried in Black
Summary
Deeper Than Deep State In this explosive new series, former intelligence expert J. T. Patten takes you deep inside the top-secret operations you'll never see on the news: our deadliest weapons in the war against terror.... Buried in Black In the clandestine world of shadow ops, he's known as The Man from Orange. A master of surveillance, signals intelligence - and silent killing - special operative Drake Woolf has been groomed and trained by the old-guard intel community after his CIA father and mother were murdered in Tunisia. Now he works for Task Force Orange, handling cases the government doesn't want its fingerprints on. Woolf can always be relied on to carry out an assignment with surgical precision - and exterminate a threat with extreme prejudice. But his latest mission is different. Woolf knows the targets personally. He trained them in Iraq to be the perfect killing machines. Known as the "Mohawks", these Iraqi rebels know our secrets, our strengths, and our weaknesses. And they're using this knowledge to launch the deadliest attack the world has ever seen - on American soil....
©2018 J. T. Patten (P)2019 Tantor