Why Should the Boss Listen to You?: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor

6.8. Questions to Consider

Here are questions you need to ask yourself about whether you can really put yourself in the boss's shoes and work from a management perspective:

• What is the real expertise, beyond my area of staff knowledge, that I bring to those who run my organization?

• Do I have the patience to make progress incrementally and, at the same time, help the extraordinary number of individuals around me and those who will cross my path as I move toward my goal of becoming a strategic advisor?

• Do I have the stomach for the intense, conflict-ridden, and often confrontational environment in which decisions are made at the senior levels of organizations?

• Do I have the personal patience and substantive intensity to be able to comfortably hold ...