CHAPTER 14
LEAD UP
Succeed by Supporting Your Boss’s Success
Your individual leadership success is contingent upon you making others successful. While you want to have a positive influence on everyone you touch through your leadership work, your leadership fate will be mostly determined by your influence over the success of the people you lead—which you read about in part two—and how successful you help your boss become. This chapter focuses on learning to lead the leaders who lead you.
Quite a lot has been written about how to “manage up.” Much of it is common sense; do a good job, support the boss’s goals, communicate, follow through, and deliver results. Honestly, though, shouldn’t ALL employees do those things, not just those in management ...
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