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Fortune
Jane Thier

Being the agreeable employee could be the secret to getting promoted

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Nice guys finish…first. 

Workers with traits like cooperation, humility, and altruism contribute to team performance more than those with a shark-like demeanor, finds a recent study from researchers at University College London, entitled “Kill chaos with kindness.” That follows decades of assumption that competitiveness and bloodthirst at work is the key to making it to the C-suite, and the pandemic may explain the shift. 

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