CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
How to Manage the Boss
MOST MANAGERS, including of course most chief executives, have a boss. Few people are as important to the performance and success of a manager as the boss. Yet while management books and courses abound in advice on how to manage subordinates, few if any even mention managing the boss.
Few managers seem to realize how important it is to manage the boss or, worse, believe that it can be done at all. They bellyache about the boss but do not even try to manage him (or her). Yet managing the boss is fairly simple—indeed generally quite a bit simpler than managing subordinates. There are only a few Dos, and ...
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