When the practice of managing up gets confused with promotion of self-interest, brown-nosing, manipulation, the gymnastics of corporate climbing, or other mind games, a good theory rapidly becomes twisted resulting in a false and dangerous reality.
Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Book for Leaders, to prevent others from going through what I went through at the ripe old age of 24.
Roberta Chinsky Matuson is the President of Matuson Consulting ( www.matusonconsulting.com) and author of the forthcoming, Talent Magnetism (Nicholas Brealey, 2013) and the highly acclaimed book Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, a Washington Post Top-5 Leadership pick.
Roberta Chinsky Matuson is the President of Matuson Consulting ( www.matusonconsulting.com) and author of the forthcoming, The Magnetic Workplace (Nicholas Brealey, 2013) and the highly acclaimed book Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, a Washington Post Top-5 Leadership pick.
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Many people would say the purpose of managing-up is to have the by-product of your efforts enhance the work of those you report to.
While I have nothing against this concept (I call it doing your job), I do have a problem with the reality that many practitioners of managing-up miss the point altogether.
How can these managers pursue foreign acquisitions and end up managing the acquired corporations?
But Mr Richards failed to kick his habit despite managing to set up his own repairs garage in 2009 - called J Richards Pitstop Perfectionist, in Dumballs Road.
You end up managing increasingly ecologically impoverished, engineered, unrecognizable landscapes.
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The printer companies themselves have set up businesses managing print services for their customers and promising to slash print budgets.
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Many of the British complaints surrounding the Olympics reflect our understandable concern that our government just isn't up to managing it.
The current septuagenarian chairman is Cesare Romiti, who moved up from managing director when the elderly Giovanni Agnelli retired a couple of years ago.
The company is rejigging its management structure with Alan Wiseman becoming non-executive chairman and brother Robert - currently managing director - stepping up to chief executive.
Chidambaram told The Wall Street Journal that the World Bank had done a lot of work on the proposal, and had tasked two of its managing directors to come up with a paper on the subject.
But how does she head a start-up company while managing to take care of her children?
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This is a rare case of the Olympic Committee managing to get a step up on the athletes.
Giving up the infrastructure and storage of the data does not mean an organization gives up responsibility for managing user access to it.
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That means that the top people often have to spend more time managing the business than keeping up to date with their business and advising their clients.
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"I think the biggest challenge is simply managing all the pent-up demand, " said Paul Steely White of Transportation Alternatives, the pedestrian and bike advocacy group closely allied with Ms. Sadik-Khan.
The project is a joint venture between the Mongolian government (34%) and Ivanhoe Mines of Canada (66%), which is in turn 49% owned by Rio Tinto, the mining giant that is managing OT and has put up most of the money.
Google also taught Senkut the importance of several other principles for managing a tech start-up such as to be skeptical of conventional wisdom, to seek original solutions, to use data to help make decisions, to hire the smartest people and look for them in unconventional places.
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But the reality is that given electronic document management today, people end up printing less and managing more.
Stanley Ho Hung Sun has given up his position as managing director in Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM).
Her husband, crofter Andrew Gillies, said islanders had been successful at managing the rights and also building up business around the sale of venison locally.
Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with.
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Head's view was backed up by McLaren's managing director Martin Whitmarsh, who insisted his team would not support "handicapping".
Intel gets to offload the problem of managing a volatile business, without giving up a stake in a key market.
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