This is Steva Robbins.

Welcome to the get-it-done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Amy writes in,

I've done the best job of anyone in my office several years in a row.

Everyone says so, but instead of promoting me, they've promoted someone I trained.

What do I do?

Excellent question, Amy. My advice to save ourselves

from management gone wrong is this. Take your career reins in your own hands and grow a pair.

I'm not sure what it's a pair of, but probably some kind of household plant. Maybe a pair of petunias,

but they have to be very special petunias.

Adopt the right mindset.

We've all been there, forced to work under a boss who doesn't realize how much they're making

our lives miserable, or realize how much they're stifling our ambitions, or realize...

Wait a minute.

Maybe they actually don't realize.

The first step in taking control of your

career is making sure that your boss knows what you want. Your boss doesn't necessarily care

about your career. Your boss cares about your boss's career. You need to care about your career.

Adopting a better mindset is the first step of growing that pair of career petunias.

Your new mindset is one of equality.

Your boss is not your parent and you are not their victim.

You and your boss have decided to work together in a mutual agreement, and that makes you a partner in success.

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