The Essentials: Managing Up

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Hbr, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Careers, Progress, Harvard, Business/entrepreneurship, Workplace, Human, Management, Resources, Gender, Women, Business, Business/careers, Equality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Having a healthy, mutually beneficial relationship with your boss doesn’t require accommodating their every quirk, demand, and weakness. We discuss respectful, constructive ways to meet in the middle, set boundaries, and help them achieve their goals while making your competence known.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:26.0	The quality of our relationship with our boss can make or break
0:32.0	how productive and satisfied we are at work and how much we're able to advance.
0:37.0	Thinking back on my past managers, there was the one who first told me what a clear writer I was,
0:42.0	who encouraged me to take on bigger projects and stretch my skills
0:46.0	and gave me the confidence to pursue writing and editing as a career.
0:50.0	He set me up to eventually become an editor here at HBR.
0:55.0	And then there was the boss who was a micromanager.
0:58.0	She rewrote anything I'd written and regularly questioned how I was spending my time.
1:04.0	She seemed to be saying, I don't trust you,
1:07.0	which caused me to distrust her right back and not want to collaborate with her.
1:15.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:18.0	I'm Amy Gallo.
1:21.0	Every manager has their leadership style, quirks, habits and shortcomings.
1:26.0	And while in theory accommodating all those might keep them happy,
1:31.0	it's bound to slow down your career and make you very unhappy.
1:36.0	So just as they should be coaching you, you should be coaching them.
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