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It's Okay to Manage Your Boss Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Bruce Tulgan

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In this follow-up to the bestselling "It's Okay to Be the Boss," Tulgan reveals the four essential things employees should get from their bosses to guarantee success at work.

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Get what you need from your boss

In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan argues that as managers demand more and more from their employees, they are also providing them with less guidance than ever before. Since the number one factor in employee success is the relationship between employees and their immediate managers, employees need to take greater responsibility for getting the most out of that relationship. Drawing on years of experience training managers and employees, Tulgan reveals the four essential things employees should get from their bosses to guarantee success at work.

  • Shows employees how to ask for what they need to succeed in their high-pressure jobs
  • Shatters previously held beliefs about how employees should manage up
  • Outlines what employees must get from their managers: clear expectations; the skills needed to perform their jobs; honest feedback, recognition or rewards

A novel approach to managing up, It's Okay to Manage Your Boss is an invaluable resource for employees who want to work more effectively with their managers.

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Are you under increasing pressure at work?
Do you receive the support and guidance you need?
Do you have the flexibility you want and work under the conditions you need?
Are you earning as much as you should?
Are you UNDERMANAGED?

Wherever you work, you rely on your immediate boss for meeting your needs at work--no other relationship is as important to your career success. Yet few of us know how to get the best out of the most important person in our work lives.

In the much anticipated follow-up to It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan challenges you to take responsibility for your role in every management relationship. Based on ongoing research started in 1993, Tulgan reveals the four essential things you should get from your boss to succeed at work:

  • Clearly spelled-out and reasonable expectations
  • The skills, tools, and resources you need to accomplish those expectations
  • Honest feedback about your performance and course-correcting direction when necessary
  • Proper recognition and rewards in exchange for your performance

This back-to-basics and unconventional approach to managing up will help you build highly engaged working relationships with your boss, and deal with complex authority relationships at every level and in any workplace.

Go ahead--it's okay to manage your boss... you just have to be very good at it. Learn how in this step-by-step book.

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  • Title It's Okay to Manage Your Boss
  • Author Bruce Tulgan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jossey-Bass
  • Publication date 2010-09-14
  • Features Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780470605301 / 0470605308
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.86 x 0.82 in (21.13 x 14.88 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Business Aspects
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Managing your boss
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010025177
  • Dewey Decimal Code 650.13

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  • Publishers Weekly, 10/11/2010, Page 0

About the author

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 RainmakerThinking, a workplace research and training firm, and has written for the New York Times, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, and HR Magazine. He is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling It's Okay to Be the Boss, the classic Managing Generation X, and Not Everyone Gets a Trophy. Tulgan holds a fourth-degree black belt in karate and is married to Debby Applegate, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

For more information about the book and to view Bruce Tulgan's video newsletter, please visit www.rainmakerthinking.com.

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