Managing Up
How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss
Mary Abbajay
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Managing Up
How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss
Mary Abbajay
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Build vital connections to accelerate your career success
Managing Up is your guide to the most valuable 'soft skill' your career has ever seen. It's not about sucking up or brown-nosing; it's about figuring out who you are, who your boss is, and finding where you meet. It's about building real relationships with people who have influence over your career. Managing up is good for you, good for your boss, and good for the organization as a whole. This book gives you strategies for developing these all-important connections and building more than rapport; you become able to quickly assess situations, and determine which actions will move you forward; you become your own talent manager, and your boss's top choice for that new opportunity. As a skill, managing up can do more for your career than simply 'networking' ever could—and this book shows you how.
Real-world strategies give you a set of actionable steps, supplemented by expert advice from a top leadership consultant that helps you get on track to advancement. It's never too early or too late to start adjusting your alignment, and this book provides the help you need to start accelerating your trajectory.
- Develop robust relationships with influential people
- Enhance your self-awareness and become more adaptable
- Gain new opportunities and accelerate your career
- Stop 'schmoozing' and develop true, lasting connections
Managing up helps you build the sort of relationships that foster more communication, collaboration, cooperation, and understanding between people at different levels of power, with a variety of perspectives and skills. This type of bridge-building builds your reputation for effectiveness and fit, so you can start skipping rungs on the ladder as you build a strong, successful career. Managing Up is your personal manual for building this vital skill so you can begin building your best future.
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Stop Complaining and Start Winning – Managing Up Is the Key to Your Success
“Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…Needless to say, this is far less satisfying than nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.”—Barbara Brown Taylor
Your Boss Matters
Your Boss Isn't Going to Change
Your Career Matters
Everybody Has to Manage Up, So Learn to Be Good at It
Choice Is Empowerment
- Change the situation. (We know this is almost impossible, since we can't actually change other people and getting your boss fired is a long‐term play.)
- Leave the situation. (Only you can decide when this is the best strategy, and sometimes it is.)
- Accept and adapt to the situation. (Learn to manage up!)
Stop Waiting for the Unicorn and Start Working Well with the Boss You Have
Managing Up Will Make You a Better Leader
Objections to This Book
“Your Honor, I object!”—Every lawyer in America
- Objection 1: It's not fair. My boss is the problem; why should I have to adapt to him? He should adapt to me. Yes. You are right. It's not fair. Completely and utterly not fair. But you know what else isn't fair? Life isn't fair. When given lemons, you can either sit back and suck on the sourness, bemoaning your fate, or you can take those lemons and make something out of them. Getting caught in the it's‐not‐fair trap is a mistake. The world is not a meritocracy and neither is the workplace. Learn to deal with it.
- Objection 2: My boss needs to change, not me. You will get no argument from me on that. I totally believe that your boss could and should learn to be a better boss. Your boss should take her job as boss seriously and do everything she can to be a boss who cares and develops her people. Your boss should understand and respect the enormity of her role. Your boss should read a book or two on being a great boss and then actually be a great boss. But guess what? You can't change your boss. All you can do is change your reaction to your boss. If your boss doesn't know how to manage people, then you have to learn to manage her.
- Objection 3: Giving in only reinforces your boss's bad managerial ways. Yes. You may be right. Adapting to your boss probably won't teach him anything about being a good boss. But neither will your animosity and resistance. As long as organizations and businesses continue to promote people based on technical skills and not people‐management skills, then the odds of encountering ineffective man...