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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

The Real Reason Jerks Get Ahead In Life

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

Coming up, how to play the office game and win without looking like a jerk.

0:12.0

And then nearly half of workers have more than one full-time job.

0:17.0

Wow, we'll break that down as so much more, let's go.

0:26.0

Welcome to the Kid Colman show where we help you win at work so that you can win in life.

0:32.0

That's right, if you're winning at work, you got a great shot of winning in other areas of your life, the opposite is true.

0:38.0

If you're losing at work, it's going to affect you in life.

0:42.0

Alright, let's talk about this all-important game, right?

0:46.0

It's a game and if you don't want to play it, that's fine.

0:50.0

But let's be honest, you need to play it.

0:52.0

You want to win at work, you got to play the game.

0:55.0

And so let's look at this old adage of nice guys finish last.

1:01.0

You've ever heard of that before?

1:03.0

So that implies that jerks win.

1:06.0

But if you look at the world, let's look down on the world for a moment.

1:11.0

You might agree with that statement that nice guys finish last because jerks seemingly, they win a lot.

1:20.0

So let's dive into this.

1:23.0

The research actually backs that conclusion up sort of.

1:29.0

Harvard Business Review found that men with a low level of agreeableness, in other words jerks,

1:38.0

make as much as $10,000 a year more than men who have a high level of agreeableness.

1:43.0

In other words, nice guys.

1:46.0

So what is second?

1:49.0

Why is it that this data exists?

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