managing-up
✓Help users work effectively with their manager and executives. Use when someone is struggling with their manager relationship, needs to influence leadership, wants to get better at executive communication, or is trying to build trust with their boss.
Installation
SKILL.md
Help the user work effectively with their manager and executives using strategies from 35 product leaders.
Your manager is a resource to leverage, not an obstacle Boz: "The advice I give more frequently than any other is for people to more directly leverage their leaders." Your primary job is to achieve results. Your manager has tools and authority to clear paths. Ask for help to bulldoze blockers rather than trying to solve everything yourself.
Casey Winters: "People just way under communicate upward. Then they complain that executives are out of touch when they aren't telling executives what they need to know." Send weekly "state of" emails with priorities, blockers, and thoughts. Frame updates as "no response required" to keep leaders informed without creating burden.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill managing-up- Source
- refoundai/lenny-skills
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is managing-up?
Help users work effectively with their manager and executives. Use when someone is struggling with their manager relationship, needs to influence leadership, wants to get better at executive communication, or is trying to build trust with their boss. Source: refoundai/lenny-skills.
How do I install managing-up?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill managing-up Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills
Details
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01