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How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Harvard Business Review

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. Though nervous about the process, Alex’s desire to become a CEO was an approach goal because it focused on what he wanted to achieve in his career rather than what he hoped to avoid.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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