Reviews for Managing Upward: Strategies for Succeeding With Your Boss

The average rating for Managing Upward: Strategies for Succeeding With Your Boss based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-27 00:00:00 Brenda Granados 1) I have a great boss. I mean I really do. 2) My boss is overwhelmed and I know I can help him more than I am currently. 3) I'm slowly convincing him that I can help him with more than the surface stuff. A bestie recommended this quick book to me after several discussions we had about my job, my role, my boss. In fact, she not only recommended it to me but she hunted it down - literally, it's out of print - and had it sent to me. She's the best. But back to the book. A book subtitled "managing your boss" sounds a bit like I'm going for a power-grab but it's not that at all. It's actually an evaluation of how my boss and I both work individually and together and how I can initiate improvements that will be of benefit to both of us. He's too overwhelmed to initiate changes and improvements so I take it seriously to do so and then once an idea is introduced we can brainstorm it together, which we do quite often. My boss has been in a state of job transition for the past two years and it feels like he might be finally getting his footing which means more needs to change in my job, these are both good things but require communication and understanding to happen. I'm an executive assistant and from day one of my job the goal has been to off-load the tedious parts of his job duties to me and to kindly and firmly intervene on his behalf to help him get a better handle on his time. That's a slower process than I thought it might be but things are beginning to change and this book helped me think through some further ideas for me to brainstorm and perhaps implement with him. I don't want to manage him to control him, I want to manage him to help him thrive in his job. That's the heart and soul of a good executive assistant. What this book did confirm for me is my thoughts about my boss - he IS awesome - and we do have a really great working relationship. Our communication is pretty on point, we don't struggle with that at all but I know, from reading the book, that I could probably tighten up the miscellaneous/random communications a bit more. An area that I always have to work at and improve in is that of decision making. I'm entirely too timid in that area and I'm guessing that two years into the job my boss might be wishing I took more ownership for some decisions on his behalf. It's a discussion I need to have with him so I know what's appropriate to go forward on without his input or direct approval, I know there are some things. This was a great quick read for me as I recognize that I could and should be doing more than what my boss even expects of me so that he is freed up to do what he loves most about his job and isn't bogged down about the parts of his job that he doesn't like.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-12 00:00:00 Keith Jernquist A book just to be skimmed through. I liked the concept of STOP. Somewhere it might help to get the doubts removed and rework on upward management.