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"Sucking Up Effectively or How to Get Ahead at Work"

This post was written by Douglas Keene: "Researchers have your back. They really do. And they want you to know that sucking up at work can be effective--but you have to do it right. And there are differing strategies for dealing with customers and dealing with the boss. 

If you want to be effective with customers--any old flattery will do, according to the Harvard Business Review.  It doesn't even matter that the customer knows the flattery is likely insincere! They just like being told nice things. But your boss is a different matter..."

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Source: Jury Room, 6 September 2010. Reproduced with permission of Douglas Keene.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).