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Managing Up

Communicate your needs, blockers, and priorities to someone with more organizational authority than you, framed in terms of what they care about. Anticipate a manager's constraints and information gaps, and proactively supply what they need to support you or make a decision.

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Nine Managing-Up Mistakes That Undermine Your Relationship with Your Boss

Covers common failure modes when communicating needs, blockers, and priorities upward, and how to frame requests around what a manager actually cares about.