Getting Ahead in the Business World

·         Think brown nosing is a bad thing?  According to Linda’s Brown-Nosing 101 blog, brown-nosing can help you advance your status at work.

·         In order to get others involved in helping you with a task, make sure there is something in it for them and that they are aware of the benefits.  In order to encourage someone to help you, you should paint yourself as the best picture they have ever seen.

·         For everything you do for the company, make it seem like the glass is half full, not half empty.  Add positivity to your ideas so that they seem like the best thing your employees and bosses have heard so far.

·         It is suggested that one should research marketing techniques, principles of psychology and self-promotion. 

·         Some helpful marketing techniques for yourself and your company are as follows:

-Don’t be blasé.  Keep adding new ideas to the pot.

-Become a valuable resource.  Start a blog about things that have made you successful and share it with coworkers to make your company a better-functioning business.

-Contrary to the above point, separate yourself from the crowd by offering to do projects, both required and extra to your job details.

-Promote the benefits of your ideas to the company as a whole and to your coworkers and authority figures individually. 

-Anticipate change.  The ideas you submit may be modified in the future, so don’t make your proposals set in stone.

·         The five basic principles of psychology are as follows:

-Innatism is the idea that the mind is born with knowledge and is not empty.

-Associationism is the idea that the mind uses previous states of mind to process a current state.

-Materialism of psychology is not to be confused with materialistic matters concerning liking of material goods.  Materialism is the idea that the only thing that exists is matter, all things are material and phenomenon are result of material interactions.

-Introspection is the self-observation of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations.

-Metaphysical idealism is the idea that experience is based on mental activity.

·         So use the previous commentaries on how to market yourself and understand the way of the mind.  Once you get a grasp on those things, you will be able to get ahead in the business world.

Information obtained from http://www.businessknowhow.com/marketing/5marktech.htm, Wikipedia for dictionary definitions, and http://brownnosing.typepad.com/brownnosing_project/2009/11/creating_and_ma.html.