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Three Times You Have to Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

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." It happened during the Kennedy Administration's Bay of Pigs fiasco when " groupthink " carried the day.

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