Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Introduction: Leaders and Their Advisors.

Part One: The Realities of Advising Top Executives.

1 How Leaders Think and Operate: The Pressures, What Matters, the Obstacles, and the Solutions.

2 What Leaders Expect.

3 Achieving Maximum Impact.

Part Two: The Seven Disciplines.

4 Be Trustworthy.

5 Become a Verbal Visionary.

6 Develop a Management Perspective.

7 Think Strategically.

8 Be a Window to Tomorrow: Understand the Power of Patterns.

9 Advise Constructively.

10 Show the Boss How to Use Your Advice.

Conclusion: You Are the Table.

Index.