How Do I Get My Boss To...? (EPUB eBook, Second Edition)

People finish the sentence a hundred ways. Listen to me. Promote me. Stop rewriting my reports. Trust me with the client. The ending changes. The question does not.

How Do I Get My Boss To...? is Duane K. Andrews's handbook on leading up: seventeen keys for building the credibility that makes a boss listen, trust, and act. Leadership is influence aimed at the person above you, where no title helps. The book answers the question underneath the one people ask, the one about what you have already taught your boss to believe about you through months of small moves.

The Keys cover managing yourself, accepting that your boss is your boss, making your boss look good, thinking like an owner, keeping the boss in the loop with no surprises, offering solutions instead of problems, seeking honest feedback, proving you are trustworthy, and getting into the inner circle. Composite cases from coaching practice. No scripts that collapse under pressure. Practice that survives being seen.

Built for managers and professionals who need influence upward, not another motivational pep talk. When you have done everything right and still cannot lead up, the closing chapters tell you what that answer costs and what to do with it.

This Second Edition is the updated 2026 text.

Duane K. Andrews, MBA, is Principal and CEO of DKA Toolkit Inc. He brings thirty-two years in Corporate America and service as a corporate trainer at Baruch College from 2004 to 2022. The ENRICH Framework™ was created by Duane K. Andrews and Sherry M. Jerimie.