Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Are you ready to take the jump from your current role--technical expert or quality producer or people person--to that of highly effective leader who gets noticed and rewarded?
Lead Your Boss will show you how. This invaluable guide helps you cultivate the balanced, cohesive, and passionate leadership style called "managing up." It's a style that works from the middle ranks, where leadership often entails influencing your boss, your peers, and those who report to you--all of whom are favorably affected by your commitment and contributions. Managing up, then, is about building those traits that are most admired and appreciated, such as integrity, energy, empathy, resilience, and big-picture thinking--classic leadership traits that propel people from any organizational rank on a fast track upward.
Filled with inspiring stories of people who accomplished great things by employing their skills, energy, and influence for the greater good--Eleanor Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Sir Edmund Hillary, Paul Newman, and others--and packed with practical strategies and useful advice, Lead Your Boss shows you how to:
- Think strategically, challenging yourself and your team to be more innovative
- Cultivate criticism and honest feedback as important components of growth and improvement
- Coach your team in the 3Cs (coordinate, cooperate, and collaborate) of working together in a mutually beneficial way
- Persuade others to listen to your ideas, overcoming obstacles and turning influence into leadership
- Challenge assumptions without challenging the individual above you, and break down often daunting resistance to change
- Exhibit resiliency in the face of adversity, turning setbacks into comebacks
- Put people into positions where they can succeed--then stand aside and let them
As confidence in America's CEOs continues to slide, it's time for middle managers and valued teammates to step into positions of leadership. This inspiring book is packed with insights and strategies for rallying everyone around common goals that bring positive results for yourself, your teammates, and your boss--an all-around win
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Every manager on the move wants to have influence at the top in order to get his or her ideas heard and ultimately acted upon. In Lead Your Boss, recognized leadership guru John Baldoni 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. Featuring instructive stories based on real-life experiences from leaders at all levels, Lead Your Boss reveals proven strategies for: - Developing spheres of influence - Handling tough issues - Asserting oneself diplomatically - Putting the team first - Persuading up - Establishing trust - Using organizational politics to everyone's advantage - Inspiring others through-out the organization Lead Your Boss gives readers practical, tactical advice on becoming a key player in any organization, regardless of whether or not they have an office in the Csuite...YET.
Synopsis
Acclaimed leader John Baldoni teaches ambitious managers how to get their ideas heard--and acted upon. In Lead Your Boss, he provides readers with both a powerful new approach and timeless methods for influencing their bosses and their peers and earning rapport with senior leadership teams. You'll how to leverage positive traits--like initiative, resilience, empathy, and courage--to manage up, and will explore proven strategies for: developing spheres of influence, handling tough issues, asserting yourself diplomatically, putting the team first, persuading up, establishing trust, using organizational politics to everyone's advantage, and inspiring others throughout your organization. Every manager on the move wants to have influence at the top. Featuring instructive stories based on real-life experiences from leaders at all levels, this secret weapon for middle managers reveals effective, tactical advice for becoming a key player in any organization even before you reach the C-Suite.
Synopsis
Acclaimed leader John Baldoni teaches ambitious managers how to get their ideas heard--and acted upon.
In Lead Your Boss, he provides business professionals with both a powerful new approach and timeless methods for influencing their bosses and their peers and earning rapport with senior leadership teams.
You'll how to leverage positive traits--like initiative, resilience, empathy, and courage--to manage up, and will explore proven strategies for:
- developing spheres of influence,
- handling tough issues,
- asserting yourself diplomatically,
- putting the team first,
- persuading up,
- establishing trust,
- sing organizational politics to everyone's advantage,
- and inspiring others throughout your organization.
Every manager on the move wants to have influence at the top. Featuring instructive stories based on real-life experiences from leaders at all levels, Lead Your Boss reveals effective, tactical advice for becoming a key player in any organization even before you reach the C-Suite.
Synopsis
For those in middle management, leadership guru John Baldoni shares a piece of game-changing insight: you have more influence than you know. Discover his methods for managing up--and giving everyone at your organization a reason to follow your lead.