Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win

The eight true stories in Leading Up show that leaders today aren’t just bosses, they’re self-starters who take charge even when they haven’t been given a charge. In this book, leadership expert and Wharton School professor of management Michael Useem offers instructive accounts of this vital and unexplored facet of leadership. Drawing on extraordinary examples of real people - from Civil War generals to Mount Everest mountaineers to CEOs of companies like Charles Schwab & Co and Compaq - Useem shows what happens when those not in charge rise to the challenge, and what happens when those who should step forward fail to do so. Readers of books like THE IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP and LEADING CHANGE as well as Useem’s own THE LEADERSHIP MOMENT will devour this innovative advice on how to make your boss - and yourself - a success.