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:

Authenticity is about spirit, energy, and personality. It’s about brining who you are are everywhere you go.

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Managing Up:

One challenge for extroverts working for introverts is dealing with silence… Introverts like and need silence.

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Managing Up:

You want to treat your boss how he or she likes to be treated, not necessarily how you like to be treated. This is about your boss, not you.

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Managing Up:

…you care more about your career than anyone else, and you cannot depend on your boss to provide everything you need to advance.

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Managing Up:

Because most organizations still promote people based on their technical skills and not their management aptitude, you are more likely to experience mediocre or difficult bosses than great bosses.

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Managing Up:

Learning to deal with a difficult boss means being able to adapt a strategic perspective.

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Managing Up:

…we can’t change other people; we can only try to meet them where they are and change the way we interact with them.

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Managing Up:

…you will learn and grow more from a difficult boss than you ever will from a great or easy boss.

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Managing Up:

All human behavior stems from some inner drive, want or need. The more you can figure out what the inner driver is, the better you can align your strategy to meet that need.

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Managing Up:

When we come from a place of curiosity we expand our range of possibility.

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