The Role of a Manager. Is it Just Operational?

There is nothing wrong with a finance manager good at just managing finance. Nothing wrong with a Business manager good at just securing business for the company. Well, that’s what they are paid for anyway. But is it enough?
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Getting Your Boss to Do What You Want
There was an article on managing your boss in April issue of Fast Company. It was written by the author of “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die”, Dan Heath and Chip Heath.
“But let’s apply Sutherland’s approach to another irritable mammal: your boss”

In the article, they were saying that you can use the trick of exotic-animal training to manage your boss. And it listed three rules.
Rule 1 - is to ignore bad behavior
Rule 2 - any interaction is training
Rule 3 - reward the behavior you want
As much as I wanted to say that it’s useful, I believe there must be some form of understanding of your boss before you can start using the tricks.
It was mentioned in the article “Managing your boss” from Harvard Business review that you need to understand your boss in terms of:
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