For the last 8 months, I have been contributing an article to a bi-monthly magazine called SME Insights, which focuses on small and medium enterprise management.

My editor in chief, Art Ilano, maintains a blog and talk about being nice.  In this time and age, when people believe they need to show aggressive behavior to avoid being tagged as a pushover, Art illuminates that you can actually advance more if you are wiling to be ‘nice’.

SME Insight - » The Strategy of “Nice”

Next time you think that that nice person you just met is being a pushover, think again. He may be slyer than you think.

Turns out that being nice is actually a strategy. For individuals, it is a survival strategy: by being nice, a nice person accumulates less enemies and even ends up with a larger pool of allies whom he can count on over the long term. He doesn’t get into fights in school, and he ends up with a lot of friends with whom he can share lunch with.