Here's a good question to your manager: How did you feel about that?
Asking for immediate, gut feedback about something that you did, or happened to the team, gives you a read on how much managing up is needed, and/or gives your manager an opportunity to say, "I was surprised by that and I need to know more" or "That's not the direction I was shooting for, let's adjust this."
I also once explained that there was only 10 tonnes of concrete coming in the next truck and doing both #1 priorities was physically impossible, so it was time to choose. My manager, laughing, said, ok, so now you're really going to make me choose, huh?
Humanitarian logistics was easier than software because sometimes the choices were so stark and unavoidable.
Asking for immediate, gut feedback about something that you did, or happened to the team, gives you a read on how much managing up is needed, and/or gives your manager an opportunity to say, "I was surprised by that and I need to know more" or "That's not the direction I was shooting for, let's adjust this."
I also once explained that there was only 10 tonnes of concrete coming in the next truck and doing both #1 priorities was physically impossible, so it was time to choose. My manager, laughing, said, ok, so now you're really going to make me choose, huh?
Humanitarian logistics was easier than software because sometimes the choices were so stark and unavoidable.