What will you learn from this book
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Understanding Superiors: Encourages understanding the perspectives, goals, and challenges of one's superiors to effectively lead and support them.
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Building Relationships: Emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships based on trust, communication, and respect with supervisors or higher-ups.
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Managing Up: Provides strategies for effectively managing up, such as aligning goals, providing support, and adapting communication styles to suit the manager's preferences.
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Earning Trust and Respect: Discusses how to earn the trust and respect of superiors by delivering results, showing competence, and being reliable and accountable.
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Influencing Skills: Explores methods for influencing superiors through persuasion, framing proposals, and presenting ideas effectively.
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Conflict Resolution: Offers guidance on handling conflicts or disagreements with superiors diplomatically and constructively.
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Strategic Thinking: Encourages employees to think strategically and provide value by contributing innovative ideas and solutions to benefit the organization.
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Taking Initiative: Encourages taking initiative and demonstrating leadership qualities without overstepping boundaries or undermining authority.
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Effective Communication: Stresses the importance of clear, concise, and respectful communication when interacting with superiors to convey ideas and concerns effectively.
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Professional Development: Highlights the role of superiors in supporting employees' professional growth and the importance of seeking guidance and feedback.
| Language | English |
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| ISBN-10 | 1400047005 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781400047000 |
| No of pages | 324 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | currency |
| Published Date | 25 Mar 2003 |
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Today’s best leaders know how to lead up, a necessary strategy when a supervisor is micromanaging rather than macrothinking, when a division president offers clear directives but can’t see the future, or when investors demand instant gain but need long-term growth. Through vivid, compelling stories, Michael Useem reveals how upward leadership can transform incipient disaster into hard-won triumph. For example, U.S. Marine Corps General Peter Pace reconciled the conflicting priorities of six bosses by keeping them well informed and challenging their instructions when necessary. Useem also explores what happens when those who should step forward fail to do so—Mount Everest mountaineers might have saved themselves from disaster during a fateful ascent if only they had questioned their guides’ flawed decisions.
Leading Up is a call to action. It asks us to get results by helping our superiors lead and by building on the best in everybody’s nature, and it offers a pragmatic blueprint for doing so.