Adapt to your boss

- [Pete] Well, so, I guess when I think about managing up, I guess (laughs) the first thing that my brain goes to is, all right, boss is doing something annoying, troublesome, unprofessional, rude-- - [Mary] Yeah. - [Pete] That is driving you nuts, in one way or another, and you got to have that tricky conversation with a conflict, but then there's a power dynamic in which you are-- - Mm-hm. - The lower, so that's the first thing I think of when I hear managing up. I go right to the most dramatic, unpleasant, (Mary laughs) so-- - [Mary] Worst-case scenario. - [Pete] Yeah, I'm glad we started easy, like, "Hey, do that thing, be a 1% professional "and have that conversation," but then, when things get into the tricky territory, like, I'm thinking, let's say, here's just an example. There's a total lack of clarity associated with decision-making roles associated with a group collaborative project, and you say, "Hey, boss…