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Originally Posted by Have Hope
... I've had trouble with direct managers in the past. This is not me being at all arrogant or full of myself, but I am smarter than the average person, I am highly ambitious and self-driven, and I am very successful in my work. Those directly managing me have frequently been inept, less intelligent than me, and not very successful, yet somehow they're in leadership roles
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Well, you're probably smart enough to be president too. The hard part would seem to be getting 80 million or so people to agree that you were the one they wanted for the job.
No doubt you've come up with some great ways to improve your company's online presence. If a lot of other people have come up with their own great (or maybe not so great) ways too, over the years, the hard part might be getting enough people to agree that your ways really would work better. It sounds entirely possible that if you were to start inserting your procedures (however great) into a system that someone else was responsible for maintaining, their first impression would be that you were trying to undermine them and sabotage their work.
Could your boss be concerned that you might be smart in some ways that might not work so well, for the company and/or for her personally? What if (she might be thinking) you turned out to be some kind of expert at, say, getting your bosses in trouble? She probably wouldn't feel very reassured by your pointing out to her that you were smarter than she and/or that she didn't know what she was doing.
If your boss is responsible for managing you, what might be some ways for her to make it clear to you what she did and didn't want you doing, that you wouldn't resent as micromanaging? If her ideas of what you should be doing are different from yours, does she still get to be your boss? Would you even want to be her boss instead, and have it be your job to get her to do things your way?