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Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor was written James E. Lukaszewski with Logos president Helio Fred Garcia.


Influencing Leaders provides a framework for those who seek to become a trusted strategic advisor and influencer to senior leaders. It explores the dynamics and pressures of leadership, and how trusted strategic advisors can become the partners and influencers leaders need as they face their toughest challenges.


James E. Lukaszewski — America's Crisis Guru® — is the founder and CEO of The Lukaszewski Group and a bestselling author, national speaker, and trusted strategic advisor to business leaders navigating crises, disasters, reputation attacks, and contentiousness. Since 1974, Jim has confidentially guided hundreds of U.S. and international leaders through tough, touchy, sensitive, high-stakes situations. He is among America’s most prolific public relations teachers and writers, having published 2.5 million words. He is most known for his constant focus on ethical responses to adverse behaviors and situations.


Helio Fred Garcia is the president of Logos Consulting Group and executive director of the Logos Institute for Crisis Management and Executive Leadership.

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Jul 14, 20264 min
The Fifth Discipline of the Trusted Strategic Advisor: Understand the Power of Patterns
This is an excerpt from Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor by James E. Lukaszewski with Helio Fred Garcia. Patterns have two kinds of power: explanatory, helping make sense of things that happened before; and predictive, helping foresee what is likely to happen in the future. Looking back, we can discern what never works, and looking forward, we can seek to avoid what we conclude never works. Similarly, looking back we can discern what always work.

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Jul 7, 20264 min
The Fourth Discipline of the Trusted Strategic Advisor: Think Strategically
This is an excerpt from Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor by James E. Lukaszewski with Helio Fred Garcia. Every staff function seems concerned about being more strategic. Yet there appears to be little evidence that staff people truly understand what it means to be strategic or to be able to recognize what a strategy is. Developing a strategic mindset is crucial to having the relationship, influence, and access staff people crave.

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Jun 30, 20265 min
The Third Discipline of the Trusted Strategic Advisor: Develop a Management Perspective
This is an excerpt from Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor by James E. Lukaszewski with Helio Fred Garcia. Management advisors need to talk about the boss’s goals and objectives. You need to be able to see the business or organization through the leader’s eyes. The Trusted Strategic Advisor develops the discipline of understanding management and relying on management points of reference.

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