Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: 'I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do.' -- Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)
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Too much reporting can burden bosses and slow decisions.
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be …
Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitt…
A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant--and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies…
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.