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Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Harvard Business Review

The yacht was perfect, of course, and most of the bridesmaids were there as planned. But of course! And then, of course, the usual self-assured act later on, as if to say, “All part of the plan.”. Of course, once he believed, then others would too, making his vision more likely to come true. No pictures.

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In Defense of Cosmopolitanism

Harvard Business Review

My parents embodied a distinction that the sociologist Robert Merton made in the 1950s studying a small American town. Up to Merton’s time, however, locals and cosmopolitans, remained strange bedfellows. “Of course I couldn’t have,” she replied. Foot Soldiers of Globalization. But a tribe nonetheless.

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