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Flattering the boss or leader has caught up with our political and corporate culture like a virus. In politics, it has no shame or limit. In the corporate world, however, it is practised with more ...

“FLATTERY will get you nowhere,” says a stern and forbidding commander to a junior officer who has come looking for a favour. But there are many who do not subscribe to the commander's philosophy.

Years ago, a well-known Spanish journalist had the habit of telling us over his microphones: "Flattery weakens you." There is a very extensive doctrine installed within the collective imagination that ...

“I am not aware of any case in history in which flattery harmed the flatterer.” —Sophia Menache Flattery is a common ingratiating behavior rooted in the need for acceptance and approval in our social ...