Rules of Management, The: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success

Chapter 81. Act and Talk As If You Are One of Them

	“My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
	--Pablo Picasso

Okay, before you actually become one of them, you should be practicing to become one of them. If you are a junior manager, you should be studying the way middle managers walk and talk and be ready to become one. If you are a middle manager, you should be acting and talking as if you were already a senior manager. And on, right up to the top.

“IF YOU ARE A MIDDLE MANAGER, YOU SHOULD BE ACTING AND TALKING AS IF YOU WERE ALREADY A SENIOR MANAGER.”

When I first became a managing director of a company, I almost forgot ...