The subtle art of correcting your boss

Four winning strategies for saving a more senior leader from a mistake—without tanking your career in the process.

Unless you’re at the very top of the food chain, you have to do a certain amount of managing upward, where you are trying to influence the decisions of the people above you in the org chart. This relationship can be particularly awkward when you have to fix a mistake or a false impression of your supervisor or someone else with a more senior role.