In Dealing with your Dark Side, we examined how your own responses can be one of our greatest obstacles to building and maintaining strong, productive upwards relationships. Wouldn’t it be great, then, if there were some way for you to manage your responses more effectively, especially in your more difficult interactions with senior lawyers? That would make it much easier to manage upwards successfully at all times, even when you’re under pressure.

Well, as it turns out, there is. Recent...