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Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Harvard Business Review

James Bond with a camera. Quality aside, we know that those with a reputation for past success tend to get disproportionate credit for future wins – the “ Matthew effect ” described by the sociologist Robert K. Leadership Strategy' But of course! You don’t photograph the wedding party on the yacht itself; too close quarters.

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