Its Okay to Manage Your Boss, Bruce Tulgan
Its Okay to Manage Your Boss, Bruce Tulgan
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It's Okay to Manage Your Boss
The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work

Author: Bruce Tulgan

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020


Synopsis

Most employees today answer to multiple bosses at any given time, some directly, and others indirectly. Often employees are pulled in different directions by competing authority figures with competing interests, most of whom have the ability to help or to harm the employee's daily work conditions, rewards, and longer term career prospects. Employees are also working harder and facing increasing pressure to work longer, smarter, faster, and better, while adjusting to ongoing organizational changes working in smaller teams with greater requirements. Meanwhile, their managers provide much less guidance, direction, and support than their direct-reports need in order to succeed in today's high-pressure environment. In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan shows that the number one factor in employee productivity, work-quality, morale and retention is the relationship between employees and their immediate managers. Unfortunately, he argues, we have been focusing so much on the skills and habits of the managers, that we have neglected the role of the employee in these relationships. In It's Okay to Manage Your Boss, Tulgan will first explore the 10 myths about how one should be managed and how to manage up that so-called experts and books have perpetuated over the years. After exploring these myths, he will help readers take responsibility for getting the following four essential things from their boss(es) in order to succeed at their job: Clearly spelled out and reasonable expectations (that is, clear goals with specific guidelines and a concrete timetable to accomplish them). The skills, tools, and resources necessary to accomplish those expectations, or else the acknowledgement that you are being asked to achieve those expectations without the skills, tools, or resources that you need. Accurate and honest feedback about your performance as well as course-correcting direction when necessary. A fair quid pro quo--recognition and rewards--in exchange for your performance.

About Bruce Tulgan

Bruce Tulgan is an adviser to business leaders all over the world and a sought-after speaker and seminar leader. He is the founder of Rainmaker-Thinking, Inc., a management training firm. Bruce is the author of the classic Managing Generation X as well as Winning the Talent Wars, and has written for the New York Times, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, and Human Resources. He lives with his wife, Dr. Debby Applegate, in New Haven, Connecticut, and Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

This book more focused on the traits of bosses than advice on how to handle them. It’s geared towards people who are low to mid level, and work in the same location as their boss. Tips like “arrive a little early” are really not very insightful at all.......more

Goodreads review by Joe

As a person who is constantly seeking to improve my management style, I hadn't thought to take those tips and try to get MY boss to start using them. I know that I'm being undermanaged, but it hadn't occurred to me to just ASK to be managed better. My partner at work and I started about a month or s......more

Goodreads review by Eman

Basically, the title of the book should have been sth like "How to Manage Yourself Optimally?", as it has nothing to do with how to mange your boss. Bottom line, the book has some good general tips, however, it is only intended for low or medium performers. High performers and the over managed wouldn......more

Goodreads review by Jen

meh, sadly a lot of fluff. Boils down to a lot of common sense stuff that any longterm PM would already be familiar with.......more