Managing Up: 59 Ways to Build a Career-Advancing Relationship with Your Boss

by Michael S. Dobson, Deborah Singer Dobson

The key to moving up? Managing Up! For readers seeking a surefire career-booster or simply looking to improve their relationship with their boss, this is a welcome guide written specifically to provide them with the skills needed to build a productive, mutually beneficial relationship with their boss. With the inspiring collection of ideas, strategies, and tactics found in Managing Up!, readers will learn * Enhance their relationship with their supervisor in a constructive and effective manner * Accurately read their boss's likes and dislikes * Provide the kind of support that helps their boss succeed * Make sure they're in tune with their boss's goals * Build mentoring and networking relationships throughout the organization * Handle criticism, deal with problem bosses, and more.

Genres: Business

251 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 1999

About the author

Michael Singer Dobson is an American author who writes on Business (particularly office politics and project management). He also has written Alternate History novels (relating to WWII) and Role-playing game adventures (D&D, Indiana Jones, and Buck Rogers XXVC).

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finished this one as part of a professional book club...despite its dated nature and references to "trendy" management philosophy, the general principles are sound and good reminders that you have power in your position to initiate change. Good behavior is best modeled; we'll see how I do in present company. Further reflection can be completed through the 59 exercises included in the text; chapters are short in nature and can be easily chunked for quick reading.

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, starts off well and then becomes repetitive and tenuous, which makes it fall short of a better rated review. Would be better off condensing it all to about the 25 distinct points that it actually covers.