CHAPTER 47

WHAT YOUR BOSS WANTS FROM YOU

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At one level it is obvious what your boss wants from you: this will be laid out in your budget, your personal development plan, your MBO for the year and all the other planning and control documents that underpin corporate life. You need to deliver against these expectations as best you can.

You will be judged not just on what you do, but on how you do it. I have asked thousands of bosses what they expect from their teams, and here is what they said:

  • Reliability
  • Ambition
  • Proactivity
  • Intelligence
  • Hard work

As you look at the list, you may think it is a very undemanding list. It is undemanding. Remarkably, bosses ...

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