Harvard Classics - "Managing Your Boss" Author: John • Profs Gabarro (John J. Gabarro) • Ivory John (John P. Kotter) in the traditional top-down organizational structure, people tend to focus only on For the management of subordinates, ignoring "management" on the boss. Recent studies have shown that efficient managers not only spend time and energy to manage the same relationship with the affordable, but also spare no effort in management with the same relationship. The "Manage Your Boss" mentioned in this article refers to the best results to give themselves, boss and the entire company to work together and consciously cooperate with superiors. In the enterprise, the phenomenon of misreading the boss - subordinate relationship is not fresh. On the one hand, some managers feel that the boss does not necessarily depend on yourself, or if you don't rely on the boss, it doesn't realize that both parties need mutual assistance and cooperation to complete their work. On the other hand, more managers want to identify what kind of information or help you need to know the mysterious boss, and the boss will take the initiative to provide this information and help. As everyone knows, most of the boss is the same as each of us, it is impossible to do not know, it is omnipotent. The boss did not use the time, there is no extraordinary knowledge, and there is no extraordinary insight. They will also have their own pressure and worry. The relationship between the boss and the subordinates is actually the interdependence between the two inevitable ordinary people. It seems that this relationship seems to be two points: first, understand the other party and yourself, especially personal Advantages, weaknesses, work style, and demand; second, based on this information, establish and manage a healthy work relationship - this relationship should be adapted to the work style and characteristics of two people, and take care of both sides of mutual expectations. To meet the most critical needs of each other. Understand your boss, you have to know which goals and stresses in your boss, what is the advantages and weakness of weakness. You have to clear: What organizations and personal goals do you have to achieve? What pressure is he faced, especially from his superiors and peers? You still have to clear: What are your bosses and blind spots? What kind of way of work is? How do he like to get information? Is it a memo? Official meeting? Still phone? When a conflict occurs, your boss can be smaller because of the perspective, or try to make things happen, small matter? Understand your own relationship with your boss, the boss is just half of this relationship, you are half a half, and you can directly control yourself. Therefore, to create an effective job relationship, you need to know your own needs, advantages and weaknesses, and your own personal style. Establish and manage harmonious relationships with the boss If you have a clear understanding of yourself and the boss, you usually find a way of work with you both, in the case of the expectations of each other, more Efficiently complete work. For example, for the "listening" boss who likes to let the subordinates to report information in order to ask questions, you will report to him, then submit a memo; and encounter a "reading" boss who likes to obtain information in written reports. You will first put important things in a memo or report, then discuss them again. Efficient managers can always find some direct or indirect approaches to find out the expectations of the boss, communicate the information (including bad news) that the boss needs to be understood, so that the boss relies yourself. Some managers will feel that their other duties are enough, and they have to spend time and effort to manage the relationship with the boss, it is a little too much. Efficient managers recognize the importance of this work, because the relationship with the boss can eliminate potential serious problems to simplify their work.
