Noticed · Day 1 / 7
The silence was never the story.
Your boss goes quiet and you fill it with the worst story. Here's the move that ends the guessing and gets your work seen.
Dana
Direct message
Dana 3 weeks ago
You're the right person for the Atlas project. Let's get it moving 🙌
Three weeks of heads-down work. Late nights. And from Dana: nothing. No feedback, no “nice one”, no check-in.
You've filled the silence with the worst story: you're behind, they're disappointed, you're not doing enough. You don't actually know any of that, and the not-knowing is what's draining you.
You open Slack to message Dana. What do you send?
Your turn
Go deeper
Managing up starts with a mindset flip: your boss's silence is almost never a verdict, it's just absence of information, usually about you as much as from them.
HBR, “Managing Your Boss” (Gabarro & Kotter), the classic on the boss relationship.
Next up. Day 2: what “good” even means to Dana, and why you've been guessing.