It’s entirely true that your boss won’t take the fall for you, won’t stand up for you when you royally screw up without notice, and won’t guarantee your success regardless of your behavior. If that’s your definition of “my boss won’t let me,” then we have a semantic problem, not a management problem. A cornerstone of your job is selling your boss on your plans, behaving in a way that gives her cover with her boss, being unpredictable in predictable ways. You can’t go from being a junior account exec to flying the company’s biggest client to Cannes in a private jet and expensing it a month
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