Peter Fleming Promotional Advice #103 – When in a meeting with your boss (Kevin Hill) and/or other area/branch managers simply repeat (paraphrase) what Kevin Hill is saying every now and then, number one your boss will be pleased with your participation in the meeting/conference call, and best of all you will get a warm get your chap stick out smile that only the approval of your green master can give you, come on you know the look, the baby you are going places just take one more for the company look and the next promotion is yours*.

This works great for self promotion, first you look like you agree with your boss (Kevin Hill or whoever) because you are basically concurring with everything they say. Second you will never be put in a spot where you actually have to think and there is no way you will ever contradict what your boss is saying. Basically you can be a flat line comatose “leader” and get away with it because you are nothing but a parrot, no conflicts with your boss and no reason to have an independent thought in your head.

This method will guarantee good reviews and promises of future promotions, it worked for Peter (Pete) Fleming and the best part of this method is the smart company bosses at the top (Kevin Hill, Jack Talley) don’t have a clue as to your little secrete method of using them to get to the next level, they think you are a genius because you an them think so much alike.

However it does make your bosses appear to be a complete bunch of morons because they are clueless to your little tricks, but this is an added bonus because you are really smarter than they are anyway at least in your own mind, oops maybe I should not have said this part, am I bad.

*The promotion is yours today and only today and as long as someone else does not advance my career between now and the next promotion, or complain, or threaten to quit about the time the said promotion is open, and your numbers don’t suck the month before, and you haven’t embarrassed me in public, or disagreed with me, or failed to bow down when I enter the room or for any other reason I deem material at the time you apply for said promotion I have the right to refuse you the promotion and give it to the new guy that just started in the last six months because they live for ERAC and give 110% unlike your sorry ass.