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What Entertainers Can Tell Us about Personal Strength, Part II

Building Personal Strength

Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald On SELF-ESTEEM - “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” - Judy Garland On EFFORT - “I can get into higher and higher levels of not doing, and it’s good.

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Three Tips For Overcoming Your Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

But how do managers work actively to fight weaknesses of which, by definition, they are insufficiently aware? It may well be that people are self-censoring for fear of exclusion or retribution. ” That’s self-awareness. To fight confirmation bias, have a devil’s advocate.

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