February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 45m
English
book
The CEO Difference: How to Climb, Crawl, and Leap Your Way to the Next Level of Your Career
by D. A. Benton
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CHAPTER 11Don’t Be a Sycophant
IF YOU strongly disagree with an approach, a task, an injustice, or anything that pertains to achieving the company’s or your own mission, tell your boss how you feel directly. If you have information that differs from the boss’s position or point of view that will genuinely move the company forward, not just move you forward, you have to talk to her. You can still be loyal, support your boss, be respectful, and try to make her life easier, but in an honest, confident manner, you have to express your beliefs.
Speak up when you think he is on target or not. Bosses need to hear it when you think they are right, just as they need to hear it when you think they are wrong. A confident person holds to her own ideas, which ...