No-risk Praise (Do It Behind Their Back)
by Compliment someone face-to-face have a risk which is the recipient may think that you’re brownnosing him.
A compliment one hears is never as exciting as the one he overhears. A priceless way to praise is not by telephone, not by telegraph, but by tell-a-friend. This way you escape possible suspicion that you are an apple-polishing, bootlicking, egg-sucking, back-scrathcing sycoptah trying to win brownie points. You also leave recipents with the happy fantasy that you are telling the whole world about their greatness.
Therefore, instead of telling someone directly of your admiration, tell someone who is close to the person who you wish ti compliment. For instance, suppose you want to be in the good graces of Jane. Don’t directly compliment Jane. Go to her close associate Diane and say “You know, Jane is a very dynamic woman. She said something so brilliat in the meeting the other day. Someday she’ll be running this company.”
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