{ "item_title" : "The Right Altitude Field Guide to Managing Up", "item_author" : [" Don Eash "], "item_description" : "Managing up isn't politics. It's translation.You do excellent work. The people who decide your future have no idea. Your boss knows, mostly, but the room where the promotion gets decided is full of people who have never seen what you do. When your name comes up, your boss can't make the case, because you never gave them the words. He's great isn't an argument. 3 years of great work, invisible to the people who mattered most. The gap was never your performance. Nobody translated it upward.Most leaders who feel micromanaged, overlooked, or second-guessed decide the boss is the problem. Usually it's the format. The thorough weekly report sitting unread in a verbal processor's inbox. The 30-slide deck when the boss needed 3 bullets. Good work doesn't speak for itself. It whispers.This field guide is about making your value visible without playing politics. It's built around 5 practices for the most consequential relationship you have at work: Reading Your Boss. Learn how your boss takes in information, how they decide, and what keeps them up at night, using the Boss Decoder and the Information Pyramid. Then deliver your work in the format that actually lands, including when your boss is overwhelmed, new to the level, or being managed out. The Strategic Narrative. Your boss doesn't need your 30 slides. They need your 3 sentences: what you're doing, why it matters to their priorities, and what's next. The Friday Update. 3 bullets, every week: what moved, what's coming, and the thing your boss should know. It quiets the ad hoc status requests and builds the record that speaks for you when you're not in the room. The Sponsor Map. Name the 5 people who influence your next career move and what each one actually knows about your work. Learn the difference between a mentor, an advocate, and a sponsor, so your career doesn't hang on a single relationship. Pushing Back Without Pushing Away. Disagree before the decision, commit fully after it, and build a track record that makes your agreement mean something.Start with the 5-question diagnostic to find your weakest link, then go straight to the practice that fixes it. Every practice comes with coaching questions, a 48-hour experiment, and a 30-day build.The stories are drawn from coaching conversations: the VP whose detailed reports sat unread until she switched to a 5-minute verbal update, the director whose 20-page monthly report became 3 bullets his VP read every word of, the senior director who lost her only sponsor the day her VP left.The goal was never to manage your boss. You can't. The goal is to manage what you do control: what reaches them, in what form, and how often.Part of The Right Altitude Field Guides, a series of short, practical guides by executive coach Don Eash, MCC, ACTC.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/895/181/9798951812025_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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