Welcome to Manager Tools.

This is Sarah.

And I'm Mark.

Today's podcast, My Boss doesn't support company guidance, part one of one.

This cast answers these questions.

What if my boss is not supporting leadership?

What if my boss talks negatively about the company or leadership?

How can I support the company if my boss doesn't?

If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

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So, Mark, we heard from someone at a recent public conference that we were hosting,

an effective senior manager conference, and this podcast is meant to address her question.

Yeah. So, look, many professionals, including bosses, do not know

the law of professional subordination, about which we have guidance elsewhere. They don't

understand that role power, the part of power that everybody thinks is important but really isn't,

role power allows the manager to speak for the organization. That literally is what role power is.

The CEO can't speak to everybody all the time, so he or she delegates to you, the authority to

speak for him. And by the way,

as you might imagine, there's a lot of trust involved in that. That is what your role power is.

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