managing up
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The deliberate practice of shaping your own manager's expectations, information, and decisions.
Half her effectiveness comes from managing up: she briefs the VP before problems reach him, so nothing ever lands as a surprise.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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