How to Manage Your Boss

by Christopher Hegarty

With the help of this invaluable book, you can learn the secrets of effective communication. You can learn how to manage the person who manages you. And it will make a difference -- a Big difference.

The key to improving your work life is not in your job itself but in your relationship with your boss. Employers and employees have a long history of creating patterns of communication (or non-communication, as the case so often is) that leave little room for innovation... or enthusiasm.

Christopher Hegarty, a management consultant to four hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, offers you proven strategies for evaluating yourself. your boss, and your job in a way that is calculated to dramatically improve your work life.

You'll Discover:
--how to look good by finding solutions
-- how to develop strengths to compensate for your boss's weaknesses
-- how to significantly increase your productivity, and much more.

Now When You Put More Into Your Job, You'll Get More Out Of It!

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 12, 1985

Reviews

[Paula Dembeck · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is designed to help those recently advanced to a management position as well those who have been in that position for some time but are still struggling in their relationship with their boss. Its aim is to provide guidance and concrete steps that can be taken to improve that relationship, making work a more comfortable and successful place to be.

The author emphasizes the need to be proactive, accepting your role and the responsibilities it carries. His point is that in order to know, better understand and develop a satisfying relationship with your boss, you must first understand yourself. He explains how to be realistic in determining your strengths, weaknesses and what you bring to the relationship. Part of it is understanding and accepting the responsibility to manage yourself, your time and your emotions. To help with that process, he includes tools and processes to get you started.

The book then moves on to understanding your boss, the environment you work in and what together you are trying to achieve. Learning and accepting what is important to your boss and the organization you both work for, focusing your energy in those areas and developing an effective way of communicating, are all part of the process. He then points ways to help you judge whether what you are doing is proving effective.

It is an easy read, organized and written in a way that is less academic and more attuned to those who want to implement workable strategies to address what can be an unfulfilling and difficult relationship if not properly managed.

[Daniel Ried · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Book is very helpful to many different types of subordinates and bosses. It teaches them to work together and to encourage the subordinates to work hard at there job and teaches them that they are in control of there actions not there situation. I found that this book has some very helpful tips and I encourage you to read this book.

[Bader Al-Shafei · Rating 1 out of 5]

Flipped through the pgs. Didnt read it.

[Hicham · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned some interesting stuffs from the book , some cannot be applied in my work environement but i learned good techniques