BEING NICE will get you FAR in BUSINESS!
Oct 5th, 2011 by tamara
This week I had an accounting class, in which I asked my fellow
students if I could borrow their notes because I had missed a class.
I asked five different people and received a creative variety of excuses why they could not
give me their notes.
Embarrassed, I ended up asking my professor if I couldborrow hers, which she gladly provided me with.
HOWEVER the whole scene made me think that, with all due respect to competition and wishing to be successful, I
believe that we should also be GOOD to each other, and HELP.
Acting on your own can only bring you partial success.
If you wish to succeed beyond that, one should start treating people better.
Furthermore, one might need some help some day, or one might find out that our world is very small and round!
You never know where you’ll find people you mistreated, especially in the business
world.
Therefore, I should like to point this out loud and clear to all the kind
SAUDER students out there – BE KIND TO OTHERS, IT WILL NOT HARM YOUR
POSITION OR SUCCESS !IN FACT- IT WILL SHOW YOU OFF IN A VERY POSITIVE WAY!
I would suggest that all should be kind to others on their way up the ladder of success(one never knows who one will meet on the way down!).
Interesting book on this matter:
http://www.businessknowhow.com/growth/power-nice.htm
citation: Kaplan Thaler, Linda & Koval Robin.”The Power of Nice: How to Conquer The Business World with Kindness”
Broadway Books, a division of Random House, Inc, 2006.