10 Aug Managing Up: How to Influence the People Who Influence Your Success

Nobody promotes you. Nobody endorses you. Nobody adopts your recommendations — just because you stayed quiet and hoped to get noticed.

I once watched a friend turn down every golf outing, every barbecue, every informal invite his manager extended — because he didn’t want to “suck up.” His peers went. They built the relationship. They became the trusted advisors. He didn’t.

That’s the part about leadership nobody teaches you: your success isn’t only about how well you perform. It’s about how well you understand the people who have influence over your future.

In my latest newsletter article, I break down 5 strategies to influence upward — the kind that isn’t politics, it’s partnership:

1. Understand their goals (and position your ideas as the solution)

2. Understand their concerns (and remove objections before they’re raised)

3. Understand how they decide (Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t hand FDR a report — she took him to see poverty firsthand)

4. Respect their hot buttons (a lesson I learned the hard way, mid-phone call, with my own manager)

5. Become a trusted source of feedback — not just another employee in the room

Technical skill gets you in the door. Influence determines how far you go.

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