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New researchstudy in behavioral science has exposed that negative thinking stands in the method of success in the office. Cynics, it turns out, make less cash, report lower task completesatisfaction, and are less mostlikely to be raised to management positions. That’s duetothefactthat success is not the winner-take-all fight that skeptics think it to be. Cynicism, in reality, can bleed workenvironments of imagination, openness, and spirits, and the bottom line — whereas the individuals who prosper at work tend to so by structure relyingon connections and alliances. As a researchstudy psychologist, the author has worked with companies and leaders to assistance them battle cynicism and bring the cooperative benefit to their groups, and in this post he lays out some efficient approaches for doing so.
Five hundred years ago, writing in The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli used suggestions to leaders attempting to grow their power.