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Title: Managing Up: 59 Ways to Build a Career-Advancing Relationship with Your Boss by Michael S. Dobson, Deborah Singer Dobson ISBN: 0-8144-7042-4 Publisher: American Management Association Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: handy, realistic, easy read
Comment: Wasn't preachy and from the writing it's obvious the writer is an old hand at organisational dynamics. It was also written without getting too embroiled in the emotional rambling. I identified with many of the scenarios described, and the advice proved useful. Clear, concise and highly readable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful!
Comment: If your notions of how to get along with your boss stopped at the admiring-the-family-photos-on-the-credenza stage, here's how to move it along. Michael Dobson and Deborah Singer Dobson advance kissing-up to a new, practical level, as they straightforwardly explain their boss-wrangling concepts. You can read the brief chapters in bite-size chunks and each one ends with a worksheet. While these concepts about understanding your boss and playing to the boss's priorities are not particularly innovative, they are useful and accessible. The Dobsons wrote their book as much for the folks in the cubicles as for the fellow in the office with his feet on the desk. Reading this book won't change your boss's personality - but it might blunt his pitchfork. We [...] recommend it to staffers who want to get ahead by getting along with the boss, the gatekeeper to the top. And if that takes a little manipulation, well, hey, it's business.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty good basic reading for rookies
Comment: I didn't finish reading the book because I had lost my interest in it. Notwithstanding, the contents are all good and correct. However, having worked for more than 4 years now, I've already known all the ingredients need to climb up the ladder. The problem to me is how to do it effectively and efficiently without leaving a kiss up perception, which is hardly covered in this book. However, if you're a "rookie", a first year employee, a fresh graduate, then this might be the book to read so that you can gain an impressive "hello" effect to your managers and colleagues. In fact, you could actually just browse the table of contents to get the meat of the book.
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Title: Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You by Rosanne Badowski, Roger Gittines, Jack Welch ISBN: 0385507720 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Managing Your Boss (Barron's Business Success Guides) by Sandi Mann ISBN: 0764119508 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Why Don't You Want What I Want? How to Win Support for Your Ideas without Hard Sell, Manipulation, or Power Plays by Rick Maurer ISBN: 1885167563 Publisher: Bard Press (TX) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring: How to Choose & Use the Right Tool to Boost Employee Performance by Florence M. Stone ISBN: 0814404162 Publisher: American Management Association Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Developing Employees Who Love to Learn by Linda Honold ISBN: 0891061509 Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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