Why Should the Boss Listen to You?
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Why Should the Boss Listen to You?
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by James Lukaszewski
published by Jossey-Bass
Written by crisis and management leadership expert James Lukaszewski, Why Should the Boss Listen to You? outlines the disciplines that anyone who counsels a CEO, or wants to, should embrace including systematic, pragmatic, and sensible ingredients and processes for getting to and working at the hightest levels, and having maximum impact as a trusted advisor.
This is book is for everyone who advises leaders and senior managers 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.
In this important book, Lukaszewski identifies and explains the crucial seven disciplines that trusted advisors must master to get and keep the confidence of leaders:
- Be trustworthy
- Be verbal visionaries
- Develop a management perspective
- Think strategically
- Be a window to tomorrow
- Advise constructively
- Show the boss how to use your advice
Details: 188 pages
©2008
Table of Contents
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
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