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Three Times You Have to Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. Or we might be reticent to speak up, fearful of what others might think, perhaps remembering the famous quip attributed to Lincoln : "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." than "when should I speak up?"

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Personality Tests Can Help Balance a Team

Harvard Business Review

Sigmund Freud made this point, comparing humans to hedgehogs in the winter: When hedgehogs get cold, they huddle together to warm up, but then things become unbearably prickly as they sting each other with their spines. Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink.

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