James E. Lukaszewski 
Why Should the Boss Listen to You? [EPUB ebook] 
The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor

This is a book about gaining influence and becoming a key trusted advisor. It is for everyone who advises leaders and senior managers (accounting, finance, human resources, IT, law, marketing, public relations, security, and strategic planning) and for outside consultants in these functional staff areas. It’s also for operations people yearning to finally be heard and heeded by their boss.

Spis treści

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Introduction: Leaders and Their Advisors.

Part One: The Realities of Advising Top Executives.

1 How Leaders Think and Operate: The Pressures, What Matters, the Obstacles, and the Solutions.

2 What Leaders Expect.

3 Achieving Maximum Impact.

Part Two: The Seven Disciplines.

4 Be Trustworthy.

5 Become a Verbal Visionary.

6 Develop a Management Perspective.

7 Think Strategically.

8 Be a Window to Tomorrow: Understand the Power of Patterns.

9 Advise Constructively.

10 Show the Boss How to Use Your Advice.

Conclusion: You Are the Table.

Index.

O autorze

The Author

James E. Lukaszewski is the founder, CEO, and chairman of The Lukaszewski Group Inc. He is a trusted advisor who helps leaders and managers contain and counteract tough, touchy, sensitive corporate management issues on a daily basis. His website–www.e911.com–is considered to be among the most important in crisis management and public relations.