Managing Up

I feel weird about this book. The crux of the weirdness is that this is really good advice for managing up...if you're an executive admin. Like, triaging my boss' email is WAY out of the scope of my job. If you keep reading, though, that type of stuff turns out to be more “staging” than the meat of the book. Ultimately there is a lot of good advice that I'd consider somewhat obvious, but that doesn't make it bad advice. Things like anticipating your boss' needs, being a team player, and knowing when making your boss look good is more important than making yourself look good. Still feel weird because I've never really worked anywhere with this management paradigm.