> For those who make it to leadership, niceness is also a key to success. A 2015 NBC poll found that most people would take a nicer boss over a 10% pay increase

> For those who make it to leadership, niceness is also a key to success. A 2015 NBC poll found that most people would take a nicer boss over a 10% pay increase. Doesn't this mean that most bosses are not nice, ergo niceness makes it less likely to get a promotion? Of people prefer a pay increase over a nicer boss that would prove that nice people get promoted more often.