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The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up
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The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

by Dana Brownlee
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 30m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Content preview from The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

FOUR

Managing the Wishful Thinker

Images

“Could you please boil the ocean … by tomorrow if possible?”

Images SAMPLE WORKPLACE INTERACTION WITH “THE WISHFUL THINKER”

Julie participates on a conference call in her cubicle.

Martin (the Wishful Thinker boss): Team, I don’t need to tell you guys that time is of the essence with the Carter project. This one is a must win. It could make or break us and in the climate of constant reorgs, we want to prove our value to the organization. I know that our focus is domestic distribution of the product, but I’d really like ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781523098200