Bypassing the Chain of Command

Don’t Turn a Simple Objection Into a Career-Threatening Move

Say you are a technical professional, reporting to a low-level manager who knows far less than you do. You recommend a particular approach to solving a technical problem. Your manager rejects it and insists on taking a different path. In response, you decide to go to your manager’s boss and appeal the decision.

This is a trap. Not only will you almost certainly not get what you want, you’re likely to look bad to both your boss and your boss’s boss, and severely damage the loyalty relationship with your own manager.

Shelby is brilliant, energetic, and extremely ambitious. She is a hot-shot young commander on the rise.

Of course, as fans of the show are aware, the Enterprise already has a hot-shot, (somewhat) young commander on the rise: Commander Riker, played by William Frakes.

At this point in the series, the show is already struggling with the fact that Riker deserves a promotion, which he doesn’t want to take because that would mean the actor would have to leave the show, but that’s a different issue. The fact that Shelby thinks she’s always right, she sees Riker as being in the way, and would rather take her recommendations directly to the captain, is the real problem.

Shelby suggests a strategy that Riker rejects as too risky.

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