The Good, The Bad, The Spin

Jim Lukaszewski has been a crisis management strategist and strategic advisor for nearly 30 years. He runs the Lukaszewski Group and has been called one of the “28 experts to call when all hell breaks loose.” Jim’s new book, Why Should the Boss Listen to You: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor, will be released mid-February.

Jim was interviewed in November exclusively for The Good, The Bad, The Spin.

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What can you tell me about your book?

Jim Lukaszewski: The book is called Why Should the Boss Listen to You: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor. In a nutshell, it’s really about how to be a number-one number two. It’s kind of a different book in that, typically, this is what good leaders would be interested in, but it’s more about the people who work with leaders and managers to help them do a better job.

It’s often talked about as if most organizations usually are divided into two parts—the operations part and the staff part, and the staff part’s job is to help those who actually run the company, business or organization do their jobs better. So this is a book for staff people, for people in communications, human resources, IT, security, strategic planning, finance—all those staff functions whose job it is to help those who actually run the place, do a better job. (more…)

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