A System for Managing Up [Friday Highlights]
Schedule a 30-minute meeting with yourself, each Monday morning or Friday afternoon, to look at your upcoming week and note meetings and deliverables you need to get ahead of.When you hear of priority or strategy changes happening up the ladder, ask yourself: how could this impact our team, and what could we start prepping now?When everything is go... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
🚫 What you think managing up means:
- Making a list of your contributions each week
- Sharing your achievements with your boss
- Meeting with your skip level once a quarter
- Talking about career growth
✅ What managing up actually means:
- Framing your ideas to get buy-in
- Giving the right amount of context
- Proactively keeping folks informed
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