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How to Build Confidence

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Amy Gallo for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. [.].

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Successful Startups Don’t Make Money Their Primary Mission

Harvard Business Review

Often what happens is the acquiring company eventually shuts down the project and reassigns or lays off the employees. Larry Page and Sergey Brin grew Google to its current dominance by sticking to their information-organizing mission. But that’s quitting too; no company ever changed the world by selling early.

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Putting the Right Information on Twitter in a Crisis

Harvard Business Review

She is also a principle investigator on two NSF-funded projects on communicating with the public during crisis events. Lots of organizations just put the youngest person on their team in charge of it – “Oh, we’ll just put our intern in charge of it.” What follows is an edited version of our conversation.

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