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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 88389" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: Getting my employer to take me seriously...</p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't always play nice with others and I was not good at the more Machiavellian aspects of corporate politics. The amount of back stabbing and trying to make yourself look better by making others look bad is remarkable. I reported to one puke, who would routinely have his underlings deliver bad news to his boss, while he was always large and in charge delivering the good news. Blind copy emails were invented by some back stabbing puke to make people look bad to their bosses. I had the bad habit of telling the guy whose name was on the buildings bad news, because I knew that if I was boss I would want to know about things that can hurt my business. Not the best career strategy tho.... </p><p></p><p>Managing a team is a two way street and yes, part of that job is getting them resources (often a direct tug of war with other similar level managers fighting over finite resources). When I managed an engineering group that was more linear than a later gig managing the product managers. Then I often had to run interference with other high level company executives that were not properly supportive. Product management was not a well understood gig requiring support from the entire company, but without the authority to demand it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile :-)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />. </p><p></p><p>This could fill a book and I was far from expert at it. I certainly did not have the stomach to be an effective political player. </p><p></p><p>----</p><p>@ Lisa_ If they need more meat in the seats, and see you as possibly part of the solution, that could be an opportunity to create value for them, or not. If you bring them incremental business, and they know it is because of your direct effort, it seems like that would make a positive impression and perhaps be rewarded. Again it's about what they want/need. Make them happy and they will be more motivated to keep you happy. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 88389, member: 126"] Re: Getting my employer to take me seriously... I didn't always play nice with others and I was not good at the more Machiavellian aspects of corporate politics. The amount of back stabbing and trying to make yourself look better by making others look bad is remarkable. I reported to one puke, who would routinely have his underlings deliver bad news to his boss, while he was always large and in charge delivering the good news. Blind copy emails were invented by some back stabbing puke to make people look bad to their bosses. I had the bad habit of telling the guy whose name was on the buildings bad news, because I knew that if I was boss I would want to know about things that can hurt my business. Not the best career strategy tho.... Managing a team is a two way street and yes, part of that job is getting them resources (often a direct tug of war with other similar level managers fighting over finite resources). When I managed an engineering group that was more linear than a later gig managing the product managers. Then I often had to run interference with other high level company executives that were not properly supportive. Product management was not a well understood gig requiring support from the entire company, but without the authority to demand it. :-). This could fill a book and I was far from expert at it. I certainly did not have the stomach to be an effective political player. ---- @ Lisa_ If they need more meat in the seats, and see you as possibly part of the solution, that could be an opportunity to create value for them, or not. If you bring them incremental business, and they know it is because of your direct effort, it seems like that would make a positive impression and perhaps be rewarded. Again it's about what they want/need. Make them happy and they will be more motivated to keep you happy. JR [/QUOTE]
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