Your Boss reputation is yours too!

Thanks to Luca Cicatelli who inspired this first post!

This very common topic is indeed difficult to accept since it really can create nightmares. Specifically, usually issue is whether and how your manager is or is not your “sponsor” within the organization; the issue lies in how the reputation of your manager conditions yours. Unluckily enough, when your manager is negatively considered of course you can expect natural consequences of this also on yourself. For this reason, once again, it comes into play the question of how moving spontaneously and spontaneously reach positive situations to achieve personal goals. Think about your boss as the foundation of a building that is your team; who has to select a building where to live, will consider how buildings are built to make his/her choice; if your building is considered with poor foundations, you also get the consequences. On the contrary, if everything works, you’ll also get all the benefits. Let’s say that you live in a sort of cone of light or dark that is projected on you. Clearly, consequences are more severe when your boss is negatively evaluated, because as you know, when things go well your boss is typically reluctant to share merits (not all of them, of course!); when in fact there is something negative, you do know who the escape goat could be. There is, however, a way to survive:  you have to work on relationships and offer an image that is not strictly connected with your boss; then you can play your game.