Chapter 24
Manage your boss
Most of the management literature focuses on how leaders should manage their teams. This omits the most important person in a leader’s work: their boss. Leaders have bosses. Leadership is not about your title, it is about what you do. If you are a true leader, leading from the middle of the organisation you may have more than one boss. Even if you are the CEO, you will have to report to a board and a chair person. And if you want to be effective, you have to manage your boss well – they have the power to make life good or bad for you.
In practice, most of us spend more time trying to work out how to manage our boss than we do trying to work out how to manage each team member. This is rational. Our boss is more ...
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