Chapter 9. ADVISE CONSTRUCTIVELY
Chapter Outline
The Three-Minute Drill
The options
Doing something badly
Death by question
Learn and Use This Management
Decision-Making Structure
More Strategic Advice-Giving Tools
Timelines
Prioritized lists
Flowcharts
Most advisors, early on, tend to give advice in the context of their staff function or personal area of expertise. Typically, staff thinking and decision making are quite different from operational thinking and decision making. To succeed as a trusted strategic advisor to operating executives, you will need to align your thinking patterns and decision-making habits with theirs. This chapter describes a methodology that helps you think and communicate using a more structured and process-driven ...
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