Here is the secret. Your boss wants you to push back. Your boss is expecting you to think through the business strategy and the workload and offer advice—not to just try and do everything. I know that what I wanted from my staff was for them to catch all the work, analyze it, make judgments about business priorities, and come back to me and negotiate. I wanted them to debate with me about what is most important and why and suggest how to rework the plan to do the most important things first. Your boss needs you to help her with her thinking. You are being paid to judge and decide, not to just
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