{"id":353,"date":"2015-06-04T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-08-22T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T16:13:29","slug":"be-likable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/be-likable\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Likable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a\u00a0gem from the February 20th edition of\u00a0Mad, Sad, Glad<\/i><\/span> from ManagerTools.com:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a typical HBR article<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in that it’s long and academic. \u00a0The important part is that people would rather work with with someone who is incompetent than someone who is unlikable. \u00a0If you think that smarts are enough, refer to our very first podcast ‘Solution to a Stalled Technical Career<\/span><\/a>‘. \u00a0Yes, HBR, we said it 10 years ago \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"2015-06-03<\/a><\/p>\n

What! I thought this was a meritocracy! Am I not hired for my mad skills?!<\/p>\n

Well, yes. You are.<\/p>\n

And contributing positively to a team is a skill. One the vast majority of us\u00a0can’t succeed without.<\/p>\n

Be likable.<\/p>\n

Be a good, kind, and gracious person. People tend to like those.<\/p>\n

No tricks. Don’t just gently imitate others like Andy Bernard from The Office. Trickery is icky and doomed to fail — if not professionally then ultimately in the shriveling of your soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a\u00a0gem from the February 20th edition of\u00a0Mad, Sad, Glad from ManagerTools.com: This is a typical HBR article\u00a0in that it’s long and academic. \u00a0The important part is that people would rather work with with someone who is incompetent than someone who is unlikable. \u00a0If you think that smarts are enough, refer to our very first… Continue reading Be Likable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,7,117,37],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-applying","tag-hiring","tag-manager-tools","tag-quote","tag-team-building","post_format-post-format-quote","wow fadeInUp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}