Present & Past Imperfect is the first book in a series of seven novels entitled Shattered Covenants which narrates the formation, rise, decline and fall of McKenzie Barber, a global management consulting firm. Present & Past Imperfect takes place during a single week in November 1987 with flashbacks to the founding and organizational evolution of McKenzie Barber. The reader meets John McKenzie, the founding father of the discipline of management consulting and tracks the ascendancy of Ernie Grey as John McKenzie's successor to the November 1987 reality of a faltering enterprise under the leadership in the post-Ernie Grey era. The central character of Present & Past Imperfect is Joe Baxter, an executive compensation consulting partner, who is trying to hold his place in the structure of a firm with shifting leadership and political tides. The reader is introduced to a number of memorable characters which include Hamilton Burke III, a swashbuckling former Green Beret , who competes for Chairman succession at McKenzie Barber only to fall short; Clyde Nickerson, the ultimate bureaucratic villain; Bridgette, Baxter's high powered retailing executive wife; Leon Harwell , a legendary investor; Hakim Selim, Harwell's wily investment manager; Dominique de Hartog, once a McKenzie Barber consultant, now a corporate predator; Stephany Hart, an arrogant Wall Street industry Analyst; Bonnie Grow, an ambitious young consultant; Frank Alvardi, Baxter's mentor and Joe DiMaggio look-alike; Jon Grunwaldyt, the ultimate organization politician; and Lon MacMasters, who has been parachuted in to bring financial discipline to the sliding performance of McKenzie Barber's New York office. The remaining books in the Shattered Covenants series include: Ø