2.4. What Bosses Expect from Strategic Advisors
What is really expected of you as a staff advisor? What are your obligations? The following are seven important contributions CEOs expect the trusted strategic advisor to make.
2.4.1. Real-Time Advice
If your methodology is to walk in, ask questions, take some notes, leave, think about things for a while, and come back, you are going to find that the CEO has moved on by the time you return. That is because at the CEO level, decisions are made and actions are taken pretty much in real time. You have to be able to give advice on the spot, or you will be invited back only when the boss has an assignment—that is, when the boss has figured out what he or she wants you to do.
2.4.2. Candor
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