The great American writer Mark Twain once said 'I can live for two months on a good compliment' – but many of us view expressions of praise as insincere, a poll has found. It revealed that while ...
Do you think you are a tough-minded CEO, immune to the impact of flattery on your decision-making? Think again. New research reveals that buttering up one’s boss can steer the firm in a bad direction ...
As one management study put it, "high levels of flattery and opinion conformity can increase CEOs' overconfidence in their strategic judgment and leadership capability, which results in biased ...