Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You

This book is such a fun read! I have worked as an executive assistant for 6 years - this book is not only funny and interesting but also a MUST read for any admin/support/assistant! She has great tips and strategies that are useful and relevant. Can't wait to read it again. I actually bought my boss a copy for his birthday. Just an all around great book!

I would like to thank Amazon.com first and foremost for the excellent and reliable service they provide to their customers. I was always afraid to purchase online re security reasons, but they have completely changed my opinion!I have read through half of Managing Up and can so far say that Roseanne cannot sum up the situation of being a fantastic EA any better!I can't wait to finish her book and put her wise learnings into action in my own position as EA to a very busy and 'impatient' CEO!Thank you Roseanne... you make me love my job even more knowing I can now acquire the skills to work efficiently and effectively!

Academic but worth the read for the solid tips.

As an EA working for the Chairman of my firm, I can relate to most of the situations Ms Badowski cites. I laughed and nodded in full appreciation and recognition that there was someone out there who 'gets it'. We who work 'behind the throne' have a crucial role that is often overlooked, except by the very C-level executive we support. A very useful and entertaining read. Jack Welch groupies will love it too! I highly recommend it.

I am changing companies, and hoped this book would help me "forge an effective relationship" with my new boss.However, very little of the advice here is actually relevant to me. Memorable tips include managing your boss's phone calls and email, scheduling their meetings, and tidying their desk and work so that they can prioritize and work effectively. Great tips if you're a good personal/executive assistant looking to become an amazing one. However, I'm doing technical work! It would be odd and intrusive for me to read my boss's reports or emails.I feel like the title and blurb are misleading and make this book seem much more general than it is. It also continuously praises GE and Jack Welch. Those who follow CEO personality cults will enjoy this; I find it repetitive.

i'm not in the same position as the author, but i am in the same situation.this book was suggested to me since i have had a challenging time working with a superior who has little focus or planning traits. so far so good, especially as it relates to being better prepared mentally to respond and adapt to decisions with little to no input from those who are impacted the most.we march on...

The CEO of the company I worked for suggested this read and I can see why. It supports the established hierarchies that exist in the world of corporate capitalism and subverts the call to more evolved executive and management functions that are based in service to those working for you, so that the business as a whole benefits from the equity of the universal understanding that every job matters. Understandings and styles of management that, when actually studied, have shown the most promise for the long term health of companies.In its support of the existing hierarchical top down approach to business management it also inevitably supports white patriarchal hetero normativity. Things that have been shown over and over, in formal studies and of course informal anecdotal experience, to generate counter productive, toxic and bottom line harming results.This book is a placid script of gaslighting masked as zen acceptance of what is, what your boss wants to be reality and the counterproductive alpha vs beta, gifted vs laborer, isolationist individualism non sense that makes any sane person feel crazy and burnt out and any sociopathic person at the office giddy. It’s oppression masked as self acceptance. It’s the basis on which I have seen so many upper management and executives demand absurd compliance and dole out abuse to employees trying to zen a way through their unacceptable and counterproductive behaviors.Accepting reality is a wonderful practice in part because it allows us to plan, strategize and proceed from a place of clarity. It allows us to remove our own egos from equations in order to better address our own, or the collectives, needs. It does not require us to lobotomize ourselves and call it zen. It’s been an insidious train wreck of a show to watch capitalism distort Buddhism over the last 20yrs, into something it can leverage. This book is such a glowing example.There are better books on adroitly navigating your sometimes mundane seeming workplace and your narcissistic boss. Try Brene Brown for workplace relating that holds managment accountable. Try never split the difference by Chris Voss for negotiating with difficult personalities or to temper the difficult person within. Try Byron Katie or Leno Chodrin for loving reality and practices that help you accomplish that. Lastly, read about the experiences of people you may feel are irrelevant to you, especially if you hope to manage productively. Try, try, try. Be zen about your trying. Be zen about the ramifications or holding bosses responsible for showing up in reciprocal service, don’t be zen about their idiocy.Two stars bc that CEO who sent me this rec, and the C level execs I was among, tanked that company with their approach and that was SUCH an interesting exercise to witness, again, for the billionth time.

Roseanne’s advice is simple, easy to understand, to the point and best of all entertaining! A great read, with lots of simple takeaways that anyone can apply to their daily work life.