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In a professional career normally the goals are always focused on being promoted. In other words, for example, it can be compared to a stairway, when the next goal is go to the next stair and the main goal is reach the top, it doesn’t mean you can’t comet mistakes or intentionally decrease a stair sometimes, but the main goal still always be better. How closer to the top a professional is, more factors like ethics, skills, education, experience and 6others are evaluated for to get a promotion, but when you see the top promotion ahead all of this is put on the table, and many kinds of situations can happen. One of those dilemmas facing a promotion is when the professional think to be the right option for the job and receive a negative call, should accept it or try all ways to reach this? This dilemma is the focus of Pfeffer’s case study, ‘Can Nice Guys Finish First?’(2011). …show more content…

To help in this situation Adam has the positions of two friends. While Kaleeb thinks he needs accept his boss decision, Sarah asserts that he should press Merwyn to accept his promotion for the CEO job. Adam now needs to make a decision to press Merwyn or not. In other words, he needs to decide whether accepts Straus position and maybe rethink his career or assume risks and try to get this opportunity doesn’t matter what it

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