Workplace Archetypes - Brown-Noser

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The BROWN-NOSER.  The Brown-noser is a flatterer who has taken flattery just a bit too far.  


Flattery isn't bad.  As a matter of fact, Dale Carnegie in his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People,  explains how you should start every encounter with just a little bit of flattery.  It is when flattery is obviously excessive that we consider it brown-nosing. 

Variations:

• ass kisser
• ass licker
• bootlicker
• crawler
• fawning
• flunky
• groveler
• hanger-on
• kowtowing
• lackey
• lickspittle
• suck up
• toady
• yes man
• apple-polisher
• sycophant

     sycophant (plural sycophants)

1. One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential. 

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