It's Okay to Manage Your Boss: The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work - Hardcover

Praise for It's Okay to Manage Your Boss

"Tulgan's management approach yields impressive results. I recommend It's Okay to Manage Your Boss to anyone with a manager. And any boss would be well served to have his or her direct reports read it too." —John W. Lowe, president and CEO, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.

"If you want to manage your career, be successful in your role, and have a great working relationship with your boss, Tulgan's new book is a must-read. Clear, insightful, and practical."—Peter J. Byloos, president, CR Bard Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

"At a time when we all need to do more with less, getting what you need from your boss is more critical than ever. Tulgan provides a roadmap for engaging your boss in your work, getting clear direction, and ensuring you have the tools and feedback you need to be successful. A great follow-up to It's Okay to Be the Boss."—Laurie Burns, president, Bahama Breeze Island Grille

"Tulgan gives all employees—new ones as well as seasoned veterans—the tools necessary to manage their bosses. Anyone interested in developing their career will find practical and useful insights to improving the relationship with their boss."—George H. Wilson Jr., president, Barriere Construction Co., LLC

"Tulgan has done it again: another recipe for success in the workplace. It's Okay to Manage Your Boss will help you be a better employee—and an even better boss."—Brigadier General Greg Lengyel, United States Air Force

Are you under increasing pressure at work?

Do you receive the support andguidance you need?

Do you have the flexibility you want and work under the conditions you need?

Are you earning as much as you should?

Are you UNDERMANAGED?

Wherever you work, you rely on your immediate boss for meeting your needs at work—no other relationship is as important to your career success. Yet few of us know how to get the best out of the most important person in our work lives.

In the much anticipated follow-up to It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan challenges you to take responsibility for your role in every management relationship. Based on ongoing research started in 1993, Tulgan reveals the four essential things you should get from your boss to succeed at work:

• Clearly spelled-out and reasonableexpectations

• The skills, tools, and resources you need to accomplish those expectations

• Honest feedback about your performance and course-correcting direction whennecessary

• Proper recognition and rewards in exchange for your performance

This back-to-basics and unconventional approach to managing up will help you build highly engaged working relationships with your boss, and deal with complex authority relationships at every level and in any workplace.

Go ahead—it's okay to manage your boss? you just have to be very good at it. Learn how in this step-by-step book.