Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814439005)

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.