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Managing Up:
The truth is that perception is reality, and the early bird often gets the short shrift.
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Managing Up:
Just remember that when you are the boss, you must try very hard not to impose your workaholic ways onto others.
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Managing Up:
[Incompetent] bosses devastate morale, demolish productivity, and destroy motivation. Yet they exist everywhere.
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Managing Up:
Organizations are notorious for promoting people for all the wrong reasons… for technical skills instead of managerial skills.
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Managing Up:
A manager’s job requires a different skill set that that of a technical contributor. A manager’s job is to manage the people, process, and resources.
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Managing Up:
Competent people focus on and get results. Incompetents don’t.
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Managing Up:
Fear of failure can be paralyzing. People who are terrified to make mistakes, fail, or look bad are prone to the path of least resistance.
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Managing Up:
Achieving competence – in anything – requires experience, exposure, and practice… [it] also requires an opportunity and willingness to learn.
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Managing Up:
Competent managers have to be able to manage people. This requires emotional intelligence, people skills, and communication skills.
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Managing Up:
Look for opportunities to shine and advance your career by doing great work and becoming your boss’s biggest asset.
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