Leadership / Management

Managing Up?

It’s okay sometimes . . .

Mark McMillion
3 min readNov 17, 2021

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Read this neat article today about managing up. Thank you Dr. Ciera Graham for writing it. Dr. Graham makes some powerful arguments for not managing up. In the big-picture view and theoretically, I agree with her.

However (and you knew there was a “but” coming!), on a day-to-day basis, “managing up” is about…

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Mark McMillion

Retired Army officer with two tours in Baghdad, married with four kids. Proud West Virginian and West Point grad. Works available on Amazon.