Comments on: Be Good to Yourself by Making Your Boss Look Good http://www.lornerubis.com/2011/11/be-good-to-yourself-by-making-your-boss-look-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=be-good-to-yourself-by-making-your-boss-look-good building character at work and in life Wed, 15 May 2013 07:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Horrible Advice http://www.lornerubis.com/2011/11/be-good-to-yourself-by-making-your-boss-look-good/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Horrible Advice Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:34:29 +0000 http://www.lornerubis.com/?p=2009#comment-711 Making a boss look good should be the byproduct of your work quality; it should not be the goal of your work. Your coworkers, division, and company depend upon you to do what is right and give push-back when needed in regards to what a boss has requested as they don't always know best and they may not have taken your other priorities into consideration. Doing whatever they say without questioning is horrible advice and should be discouraged by HR and all senior managers. COMPANY loyalty should come before manager loyalty. You are employed by a company who covers your benefits and pays your salary - your boss works for them too and is not contributing to your salary out of his pocket. Making a boss look good should be the byproduct of your work quality; it should not be the goal of your work. Your coworkers, division, and company depend upon you to do what is right and give push-back when needed in regards to what a boss has requested as they don’t always know best and they may not have taken your other priorities into consideration. Doing whatever they say without questioning is horrible advice and should be discouraged by HR and all senior managers. COMPANY loyalty should come before manager loyalty. You are employed by a company who covers your benefits and pays your salary – your boss works for them too and is not contributing to your salary out of his pocket.

]]> By: Lorne http://www.lornerubis.com/2011/11/be-good-to-yourself-by-making-your-boss-look-good/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Lorne Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:58:31 +0000 http://www.lornerubis.com/?p=2009#comment-527 Paul...I think this is a definite improvement and as you say respects the other people impacted. Thanks ....appreciate the feedback . L Paul…I think this is a definite improvement and as you say respects the other people impacted. Thanks ….appreciate the feedback .

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]]> By: Paul Bates http://www.lornerubis.com/2011/11/be-good-to-yourself-by-making-your-boss-look-good/comment-page-1/#comment-526 Paul Bates Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:15:39 +0000 http://www.lornerubis.com/?p=2009#comment-526 I agree with all of this blog apart from #1 - sure dropping things to please your boss doing might get you promoted faster, but if means letting down other people you have made commitments to then the chances are you will let far more people down doing this than you will by not actioning your bosses request straight away. This isn't smart or respectful to those other people. Surely it would be far better to acknowledge your bosses request, ask how uregent it is and then deal with it in your priority list at the right time? Also - if you are maxed out with high priority tasks and asked to do something else by your boss again dropping other tasks would be wrong. In this instance it would be prudent to ask your boss to help you prioritise their task and ask them to help you with the decision of which other task(s) should be dropped. I agree with all of this blog apart from #1 – sure dropping things to please your boss doing might get you promoted faster, but if means letting down other people you have made commitments to then the chances are you will let far more people down doing this than you will by not actioning your bosses request straight away. This isn’t smart or respectful to those other people. Surely it would be far better to acknowledge your bosses request, ask how uregent it is and then deal with it in your priority list at the right time? Also – if you are maxed out with high priority tasks and asked to do something else by your boss again dropping other tasks would be wrong. In this instance it would be prudent to ask your boss to help you prioritise their task and ask them to help you with the decision of which other task(s) should be dropped.

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