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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Our research found that worries concerning opportunity costs, personal financial security, or ability to obtain funding for the venture were all positively associated with an entrepreneur’s persistence in pursuing their goals. Fear of failure can also change the nature of goals that entrepreneurs set for themselves.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"