Managing Up

Manage your most important workplace relationship.
Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant professional relationship without playing political games or compromising your character? Managing Up offers concise, expert tips on:

• Understanding your manager's priorities and pressures
• Setting a positive tone for the relationship
• Managing expectations--and egos
• Earning trust and respect

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About the author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 11 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Summary

When your boss looks good, so do you. But how do you navigate this sensitive professional relationship without playing political games or sacrificing your identity? Managing Up

Product details

• Authors: Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review
• Assisted by: Harvar Business Review (Editor), Harvard Business Review (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9781625270849
• ISBN: 978-1-62527-084-9
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 86 g
• Series: Harvard Business Review; HBR 20-Minute Manager Series; 20-Minute Manager; 20-Minute Manager; 20 Minute Manager; HBR 20-Minute Manager Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Management & management techniques, Management and management techniques