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

by F. William Smullen
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 16m
English
McGraw-Hill
Audiobook available
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Keep the Staff Informed About Requirements and Decisions

An intriguing book I read during my graduate studies was required for a sociology class I took as an elective. It was The Territorial Imperative by Robert Ardrey. It taught me a lot about the animal origins of property and their relationships to humans and nations. The pack mentality and the alpha syndrome are not unlike organizational life for the leaders and the led, I learned.

Controlling territory and sharing the resources in it are often a function of who’s in charge. I’ve been in organizations that have been very protective of such things as who knows what and when and determines ...

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