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

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Impress Early and Often

Unless you’re a recluse or happen to be socially inept, you spend more of your life, both personally and professionally, interacting with people than doing anything else. It’s the social animal in you at work.

The family and friends side of socializing is more natural and carefree than the routine or irregular interaction you have with people at work. Those workplace folks come in an assortment of categories: superiors, subordinates, peers, customers, clients, and a wide variety of stakeholders with whom you typically interface.

For most people, socializing comes with the territory; it’s a routine part of a day at the ...