Product Description

Bosses are human - some good, some bad. They have a huge impact on your job satisfaction, your day-to-day happiness, your workload - and yes - your paypacket. If you're lucky they will be understanding, supportive, encouraging and inspiring. Then again they might be lazy, unmotivated, weak, over-emotional, sarcastic, rude, or just downright - well - bossy. But you're no powerless victim.When it comes to your boss, then you're more in control than you think. It's a case of understanding what makes them tick, why they react as they do, and then approaching situations in the right way to get the best out of your boss. Here's how.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85881 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Review

Recommended in Personnel Today (October 2006)

From the Back Cover

We've all got one; even the best ones aren't always easy to get on with; the worst ones can make life hell. Bosses. It's time to manage them back.

How to Manage your Boss

is the user's guide to getting the best from your manager. Understand what matters to them and how they like to function, and you can start to build a relationship that is as beneficial as it is rewarding. Developing a good relationship with your boss is vital for a low-stress, high-reward working life and you are in control.

This is the book to help you get more from your most significant working relationship – from understanding your manager’s manager (or boss?)(and what pressure is being exerted from above) to tackling subjects in the most appropriate way for your manager’s personality, and dealing with problem manager characteristics.

Actively managing your manager is the big hidden career advantage – here’s why, and how.

About the Author

Ros Jay is a freelance writer and editor. She writes on a range of business topics specialising in marketing and communication-related subjects. She also writes for and edits corporate magazines both in print and on the net. She is a senior associate of the Institute of Direct Marketing.

Customer Reviews

How To Manage Your Boss
As a recent graduate in my first role of real responsibility, I found this book was crammed with useful information right from the start. Even if you think you have a good relationship with your boss, you might still learn a thing or two from this book. The book was well presented and easy to read and I would recommend it to anyone.

A good book .... to read twice
I recommend this book to anyone who has to deal with professional relationships. Besides giving good tips on how to react to certain situations and behaviours, it helps putting things into perspective and to ask ourselves the right questions. A good way to use this book is by reading it twice: the first time to make a general reading of the contents and the second one to answer the questions that are made and to analize what we already make right and what we need to change.

useful common sense for quick reading
The book is better than I thought when scanning the table of content. It has some good example of how to handle things. It is good for quick reading. I finished the book in a couple of hours. However, for detailed Assertive skills, there are better books out there.

The Amazon heading is misleading, as the book is mainly focusing on handling boss, tho I personally am of the opinion that boss is just another human being, and should not be singled out.