With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
According to Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance , people seek to avoid inconsistency, and one way of accomplish that is to adjust their attitudes to be consistent with their behaviors. Do unpopular decisions diminish power? Has he come out of the incident with less power — or more — to fight his next battle?
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