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This chapter is one of the few chapters where I would like you to simply take a moment to reflect on your current manager relationships and determine how you need to manage up and manage down to better align with your career goals. As you begin to create your career strategy in this book, how you manage yourself and others will be an element of your plan that will take careful consideration.

After spending so many years in the career development space, I have learned that it's very hard to serve as a great manager if you cannot manage your own career well. Additionally, if you have never had a great manager and have not had the opportunity to learn best practices on leading a team, it's very hard to serve as a great leader.

If you are currently a manager, once you have your own strategy in place, you will be able to manage and mobilize your team to align with your goals and the goals of the organization. You will understand not only the end goal for your team, but also how each person plays a vital part in the long‐term vision. Moreover, you'll support your team members in reaching the milestones for the team and have the strategic vision to help them create their own career development plan. Sure, you'll read this book to understand how you create your own career strategy, but great managers will be able to apply this information to empower individuals on their teams, too.

If you are an individual contributor reading this book and you don't currently manage a team, this context will help you manage your career and articulate your needs to your manager when you need to manage up. Most importantly, when the interview question comes up asking you about the type of people leader you will be, you will have the information needed to answer that question expertly.