Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up | by John Baldoni | 2010 | ISBN: 9780814415054. Career Development Books. How to Develop Leadership Presence. How to Assert Yourself Diplomatically. Thinking and Acting Strategically. Treat People with Fairness and Equality

January 9, 2010 by kutenk
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Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up

by John Baldoni
2010 (241 pages)
ISBN:9780814415054

With instructive stories based on real-life experiences from leaders at all levels, this book gives managers new as well as tried and true methods for influencing both their bosses and their peers, and giving senior leaders reasons to follow their lead.

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Lead Your Boss—The Subtle Art of Managing Up







Prologue
Put Your Plan into Action
The Business Case for Leading Up

Part I – What Does the Leader Need?
Step 1 – Leading Up

Overview
Energize Yourself!
Think Like a Boss
Persuade Up
Assert Yourself Diplomatically
What You Need to Do to Lead Up




Step 2 – Thinking and Acting Strategically
Overview
Strike the Right Balance
Rip Up the Box
Unlock Creativity
Apply Creativity
Encourage Imagination
Innovate at the Edge
Inspire Hope and Innovation
Promote Strategic Idea Gathering
Apply What You Learn Strategically
Think Counterintuitively
Hold to Your Values
Leverage Peer-to-Peer Networks Strategically
Ensure Credibility
What You Need to Do to Think and Act Strategically

Step 3 – Pushing Back the Right Way
Overview
Deal with Criticism
Learn from It
Find the Right Way to Disagree
Agree to Disagree
Demand Relevancy
Create Relevancy Through Action
Accept Criticism
Learn from Criticism
Avoid the Zero Sum Game
Decide to Decide
Get Down to It
Act on What You Don’t Know
Leave No Room for Ambiguity
What You Need to Do to Push Back the Right Way

Part II – What Does the Team Need?
Step 4 – Letting Others Create the How

Overview
Work Together
Make No Assumptions
Find the Right Fit
Consider the People Quotient
Just Ask!
Engage by Asking
Ask Not the Impossible
Hold Back on Solutions
Defer to the Top
Foster the EQ Connection
Give of Yourself
Compromise
Show Strength Through Compromise
Overcome Distrust
Know That Compromise Is Not Always Possible
Communicate Teamwork
Get the Job Done
What You Need to Do to Let Others Create the How



Step 5 – Breaking Down the Doors
Overview
Understand Means of Influence
The View from the Middle
The View Looking Up
Relate to People as People
Present Your Ideas
Respect One Another
Influence Across Borders
Make Your Case
Deal with the Limits of Influence
Advocate
Stick to Your Knitting
What You Need to Do to Break Down the Doors




Step 6 – Working the System
Overview
Establish Meaningful Priorities
Understand the Change Factor
Manage the Mind
Know That No One Likes Change
Limit Yourself
Learn from Setbacks
What You Need to Do to the Work the System

Part III – What Can I Do to Help the Leader and the Team Succeed?
Step 7 – Bending but Not Breaking

Overview
Be Resilient
Keep Your Cool
Manage the No
Go Along with the No
Know When to Say No
Treat People with Fairness and Equality
Remember That Resilience Matters
What You Need to Do to Bend but Not Break

Step 8 – Preparing Others to Lead
Overview
Differentiate Between Talent and Skill
Harness the Talent
Provide Leadership for the Team
Take a Leap of Faith
Humanize Supervision
Enable Others to Lead
Know That Time May Not Be on Your Side
What You Need to Do to Prepare Others to Lead

Step 9 – Leading With Presence
Overview
Develop Leadership Presence
Put Presence to Work
Be Present for the Team
Understand the Need for Optimism
See the Possibilities
What You Need to Do to Lead with Presence



The Smart Guide to Positive Push-Back
Stick with the Facts
Deal with the Jerk
Bounce Back

NOTES
Prologue
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Step 9



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