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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

Yet AT&T executives quickly came to believe so strongly in Job’s vision that they skipped internal process protocols to land the deal. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. You were betting on Steve Jobs.”