Skip to Main Content
Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies for Helping You and Your Boss Succeed
book

Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies for Helping You and Your Boss Succeed

by F. William Smullen
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 16m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies for Helping You and Your Boss Succeed

19

Image

Anticipate the Boss’s Thinking and Decisions

There are numerous ways to determine what the boss is thinking or saying about what is happening in the life of the company. The most obvious approach to knowing is to ask him or her a relevant question. The next best is to be in the same room as the boss when that thinking comes to life so that you have a view from above.

Bearing witness to those words may come in the form of a one-on-one session, or the call to a staff meeting, or even a happenstance moment when you’re in the same place as the boss. No matter how it happens, it’s wise to pay attention to what’s being said. If the meaning is unclear, ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Herminia Ibarra, Robert B. Cialdini, Daniel Goleman
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)

Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman
Managing Up

Managing Up

Mary Abbajay

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780071825245