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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need others' confidence and support and get it when their experience is perceived as relevant and, better yet, when key relationships provide them with social capital. Few outsiders show such self-awareness or forbearance. One is the need for "street cred" or recognition by the crowd as someone who gets it.