Career coaches agree that visibility to senior leadership separates the promoted from the merely competent, and that the ambitious must learn to manage upwards.
Manage upwards on every thread. Cc your boss’s boss on the lunch order, the out-of-office, the parcel-at-reception notice and each of your fifteen-minute “noted” replies (№ 026). Field notes: by day four they know your name, by day nine they know your sandwich, and on day eleven you are invited to a meeting titled “cc etiquette”, which you accept, and cc them on.