In the good/bad old days, if someone wanted to climb the ranks of a company, they did so through hard work and loyalty. Take whatever job you can get, work hard and get promoted on your merit. Despite trends since the late 1970’s when the MBA started to become an assumed pre-requisite for entry to upper management and the modern axiom of bouncing between firms, a recent study conducted by the Harvard Business Review shows that women are achieving entry to the upper echelons of senior management by tenured climb inside one firm as opposed to lateral hire.
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The concept of “managing up” to deal with a bad boss is one of the many ambiguous terms that fill the business lexicon. Rosanne Badowski, co-author of “Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You.”, defines managing up as going “above and beyond the tasks assigned to you so that you can enhance your manager’s work.” in other words figuring out what you can do to make your boss’s job easier and doing it.