#managing up

[pratchettquotes]

"All right, Stibbons, what do you suggest?" said Ridcully. "These days you only ever tell me about a problem when you've thought up a solution. I respect this, although I find it a bit creepy. Got a way to wriggle us out of this, have you?"

Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

[dianas]

Master the Art of Managing Up: 7 Game-Changing Strategies for Leaders

Identify your boss' leadership archetype and adjust your tactics to speak their love language.

[dianas]

In uncertain times, CEOs often feel pressure from investors and the board to make short-term moves like cost cuts and restructures. Moves like this might boost short-term earnings but can result in lost momentum and declining trust in the longer term. When short-termism takes hold, the most effective leaders become stewards of continuity—protecting learning, innovation, and customer value from extinction. Stewardship isn’t defiance; it’s disciplined loyalty to the company’s future. Because the question isn’t whether to follow the CEO’s direction; it’s how to ensure today’s efficiencies don’t destroy tomorrow’s advantage.

[dianas]

Change is no longer an occasional disruption but a constant. Employees are now experiencing five times more planned change initiatives than they did just a decade ago. Add unrealistic goals, and the result is predictable: disengagement, burnout, and a sharp decline in execution—in short, widespread change fatigue. Leaders who take on impossible goals don’t do it because they lack judgment—they do it because pushing back feels risky to them. The real leadership skill is not figuring out how to do it all; it’s knowing when and how to push back. That’s where strategic refusal comes in. Strategic refusal is a structured method to force prioritization and push back on unrealistic demands that jeopardize team productivity, morale, or well-being. The idea isn’t to avoid responsibility, but rather to protect the team, maintain long-term performance, and ensure sustainable outcomes—all while safeguarding your reputation.

[outragedtortilla]

[dianas]

15 principles for managing up

When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to help your manager get what they need, so you get what you want.

[scottjpearson]

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Project Management Techniques from the Trenches

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up A concise summary of "managing up," a new concept describing how to handle your boss, for their benefit - and ultimately, yours, too. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview

“Managing up” is a relatively new concept in the business world. It refers to taking care of your boss’ and senior management’s needs as a part of your duties. Managing down, presumably, refers to managing subordinates, but managing up, not just managing down, has a significant impact on one’s career trajectory. Brownlee seeks to explore this concept by describing what this looks like…

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Managing Up and Were Too Embarrassed to Ask

Learn management but Invest more time learning about managing up.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Managing Up and Were Too Embarrassed to Ask We live in a business environment where we’re only preoccupied about learning management and how to manage subordinates and staff below us in the company. However we rarely thing about managing up our bosses, our managers, or even our teammates above us. Many think that the process of managing up only applies to big…

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