Overcome your roadblocks to manage up and save time

- 'Cause the truth is to be awesome at your job, you have to be awesome at your job. And as you know, the world isn't a meritocracy, right? So you also have to be awesome at that relationship, and that's one way to be awesome at that relationship. And what gets in the way, I think, for people managing up, so whenever we do a workshop or I give a talk on it, there's always a couple people that are like "I object, this is stupid." And what happens is that we get in our own way. So, one thing that gets in our own way is our ego gets in the own way, we get caught in this trap of like "Well, my boss should give me more information," or "my boss should know what I'm working on," or "my boss should be more proactive in reaching out to me," right? Should've, could've, would've, right? If your boss isn't, then you have to be the one that adapts and goes to ask for what you need. Another thing that gets in the way, we feel like "Ugh…