Your Career Growth Is Not Your Manager's Top Priority - And What To Do About It

At higher levels in the organizations, your manager has increasingly less direct influence on your promotions. Instead, investing in relationships and visibility up, down, and sideways.

In the early phases of your career, your manager greatly impacts your career trajectory. They assign you projects, coach you on critical skills for your job, and make your promotion case to others. However, at higher levels in the organizations, your manager has increasingly less direct influence on your promotions. As a result, at a certain point, typ…