Managing up means bringing solutions, not problems

The biggest one is to share your point of view. When you just ask your manager, 'Hey manager, what should we do?' You're putting a lot of cognitive load on your manager to need to think about the problem, think about potential solutions, craft the solution, and then tell you what to do. Whereas if you instead said, 'Hey manager, here's what I think we should do. How does that sound? Where do you see gaps? Am I thinking in the right direction?' You give them something to build off of.

The worst piece of personal productivity advice is if you want to be better at time management, you need to learn how to say no. You don't tell your boss no, you ask your boss to help you prioritize.

A lot of managers and leaders would just try to deal with issues on their own and not raise them or escalate them with me in particular... How am I supposed to evaluate things fairly if you don't let me know what's really going on?