Say you're the new intern and you've just made 30,000 color copies of a flyer you typed up...with the company's name spelled wrong.

Gulp.

The last thing you want is to call widespread attention to your flub, all "Hello, my name is: Careless P. Idiot."

Sure, apologize to your supervisor and explain how you'll be more careful in the future, but otherwise, be quiet, and do your best to lay low for the rest of the week.

However, if you're successful--if you're one of the rising stars of the company--failure is your friend. In fact, when you're highly accomplished, your flubs and shortcomings could use their own publicist.

Recent research by Harvard Business School's Alison Wood Brooks and her colleagues suggests that successful people should reveal their workplace failures as well as their successes to decrease "malicious envy" in their co-workers.

Continued at Psychology Today...