Sucking up to the Boss
How good an idea is it? A lot of bosses would like to tell you that they have a good radar for this but they might be flattering their own weeding out skills. Or, more to the point, be in denial about the fact that they actually do love a bit of ego massage. From USA Today: When David D’Alessandro became CEO of John Hancock Financial Services in 1996, he felt that compliments from his subordinates were disingenuous unless he had …
How good an idea is it?
A lot of bosses would like to tell you that they have a good radar for this but they might be flattering their own weeding out skills. Or, more to the point, be in denial about the fact that they actually do love a bit of ego massage. From USA Today:
When David D’Alessandro became CEO of John Hancock Financial Services in 1996, he felt that compliments from his subordinates were disingenuous unless he had truly accomplished something difficult. Otherwise it’s brown-nosing, says D’Alessandro, who retired from Hancock in 2004.
But idle flatterers may actually be winning their way to the top with brown-nosing tactics.
…fresh research indicates that top executives may not be as good at weeding out brown-nosers as they think and that many are gullible to disingenuous ego strokes from subordinates.
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