
Understand Your Roles 219
TABLE 17-1
Authorization chart
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5
Authorizer
Formal
authorization
Informal
authorization
Potential
boundary of their
authorization
of you
Signs of
limits to their
authorization
of you
Boss
Peers (may be
multiple scopes
of authority from
different factions
of peers)
Subordinates
Spouse
Externals (such
as customers
and suppliers)
Friends
Others?
behalf of what you care about that you think would be beyond the
scope of what they would expect of you (column 4)? In column 5,
identify when you have met resistance (passive or active) in your role,
which may signal some of the boundaries of their authorization. ...