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Originally Posted by FooZe
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?
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I don't see any work produced by my boss - not one single ounce of work - not a single presentation or report. She has never presented in any of team meeetings, even though each of us others do, including those she manages and her own boss.
So what does she do, I wonder? She likes to micromanage and bully.
My ideas have been implemented globally and are benefitting the whole company. I have impacted website traffic and revenue positively.
My ideas have all been to make the company more money. I am doing my job - and I am doing it well.
I would never speak to my boss as though I don't think she's smart or competent. I am guessing though that she is not very competent, and I don't think she's that bright.
What really needs to happen, or what I want, is that I get promoted to a global role and am managed by someone else. My boss has even asked me if I would be better served working in a different department.. at first I said no, but when I talk to my boss's boss on Monday, I will mention it as a question to put on the table.