When the practice of managingup 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: ManagingUp, 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.