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It's Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work
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Publisher's Summary
Get what you need from your boss.
In this follow-up to the best-selling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan argues that as managers demand more and more from their employees, they are also providing them with less guidance than ever before. Since the number-one factor in employee success is the relationship between employees and their immediate managers, employees need to take greater responsibility for getting the most out of that relationship. Drawing on years of experience training managers and employees, Tulgan reveals the four essential things employees should get from their bosses to guarantee success at work. This book:
A novel approach to managing up, It's Okay to Manage Your Boss is an invaluable resource for employees who want to work more effectively with their managers.
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- Pyrochik
- 09-20-15
Food for thought
It is fantastic. He redefined what I thought I understood about a manager relationship. It did not occur to be that those bosses that leave you to do your job until something went wrong was mis-management. Once explained it makes perfect sense and I realise I have been mismanaged for over a decade.
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