5 tips to get on your boss's good side.

You work like a maniac to get promoted. Unnecessary. A book reveals the real recipes for success by flattering your boss's ego.

Forget everything you've been taught since elementary school. To succeed in the office, hard work is useless. It's better to please your bosses. This is the humorous approach of Benjamin Fabre (pseudonym of the author), a graduate of ESSEC and former strategy consultant, in his book "How to become a perfect brown-noser in the office" (Tut-Tut editions, 2013). Challenges.fr reviews the advice scattered throughout this work, drawing freely on the 50 situations described in this true "small manual of brown-nosing".

Because showing excessive zeal to be well-regarded by one's superior is an art far from accessible to the first hard worker who comes along. Brown-nosing requires psychology, finesse and even some acting talent. Advice to be taken with a grain of salt, of course...

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