
Sycophancy and reverence, both can be the ways to achieve a promotion or getting a raise. Sycophancy can be defined as exaggerated reverence. Most of the people feel sycophancy is a much better, effective and less bothersome method to elevations as compared to reverence. There is a thin line between sycophancy and reverence and most of us have blurred this minute difference and almost everyone has crossed this transparent Laxman Rekha. We feel sycophancy, flattery, and buttering will take us a world tour but that tour ends with the change in the position of the person of whom you were licking the shoes till now and so you are back to square one with hopes that the new fellow will be equally venal and corrupt and will be pleased by your acts.