Learn how managing up creates a more effective relationship with your boss.
Managing up as a way to get what you want is a great trick. I got my first glimpse of this technique when a former boss once spoke about management by attraction. This is the process by which you create such a great work culture that it simply draws people in organically versus having to work hard at promoting it. Managing up as a way to get what you want is actually a microcosm of this concept.
What you are doing is managing the person in a way that draws them to you without realizing that you are actually using this process to help manage them and their behavior. Don’t worry. Managing up is not an evil skill. A lot of times, we end up with bosses or supervisors who really have no clue what they are doing, and because they are your boss, you can’t really tell them that.
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