Book Titles

Managing Up
How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss

By Mary Abbajay

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1119436683
Categories: Career, Management, Success

66 Quotes Found

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Managing Up:

Establishing strong, productive working relationships is the single most effective way to accelerate success in any organization.

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Managing Up:

…your relationship with our boss can hurt or help you. It’s up to you.

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Managing Up:

In an ideal world, managers and leaders would adapt to their employees.

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Managing Up:

A bad or difficult boss is not an excuse for lack of effort on your part. It is your career that will suffer if you and your boss have a bad relationship.

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Managing Up:

You can sit back and wait for your manager to change, or you can take action, manage up, and watch your career bloom.

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Managing Up:

Never waste the opportunity to learn from a difficult boss.

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Managing Up:

As long as organizations and businesses continue to promote people based on technical skills and not people-management skills, then the odds of encountering ineffective management styles remains high.

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Managing Up:

…you can’t change the culture of your organization; you can only change how you navigate it and respond to it.

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Managing Up:

The world is not a meritocracy and neither is the workplace. Learn to deal with it.

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Managing Up:

There is a big difference between being a spineless sycophant and being a strategic survivor and thriver.

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