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It's Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work
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It's Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work

by Bruce Tulgan
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 40m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from It's Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work

Chapter 1. Refuse to Be Undermanaged

You show up at work one day, and much of your job seems to be coming unglued: you have a voice mail from your manager telling you the project you worked so hard on for the last two weeks is all wrong. You think, Well, I told you I didn't have enough experience to take that task on! Then you receive an e-mail from a manager in another department who is hounding you about "taking way too long" with yet another project; you need to get that to her "immediately."

Meanwhile, you were planning to spend the morning finishing up one of your routine tasks—dotting some i's and crossing a few t's—but you've received so many urgent e-mails, you figure you better answer them before you do anything else. Last week the same ...

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ISBN: 9780470605301