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Figure out ways to make the person two levels above you to also understand and appreciate what you do.

• cutemonster 6y ago
  What are ways to do that? What comes to my mind is taking with him/her at the coffee machine but I guess that's not what you'd think of / suggest
  • PakG1 6y ago
    Hahaha, of course, if I really knew the answer to that, I'm sure I'd be doing much better than I am. :D But I've sometimes had success with the following: - get attached to high-visibility problems or initiatives, which admittedly also have higher risk in making you look bad - write up really good reports/proposals on what you're doing and why it's important; good writeups sometimes get passed around and shown as example to the rest of the company; really good writing skills are underappreciated by many technical people - do presentations about your work, knock it out of the park when someone important is in the room These opportunities are like waves for surfers. Surfers spend a lot of time just waiting for the right wave, but when the wave finally comes, the surfer better be ready. It's like the stories of Apple employees being ready with a summary if Steve Jobs bumped into them in the elevator and asked them what they're working on. Gotta be ready.
    • cutemonster 6y ago
      Thanks, this seems actionable. What if a company set aside a day each month and told everyone to do this -- maybe could give insight into what everyone does, ppl learn from each other, and invisible work gets noticed? > write ... reports ... on what you're doing and why it's important Almost like content marketing for a startup, but instead for oneself inside a company
      • PakG1 6y ago
        I think the biggest thing honestly is just having a good manager. If you don't have a good manager, and they don't support making you visible, it's quite the fight to become visible.