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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. Looking up, there in the bowsprit chair of a racing boat was the photographer, Paul Barnett, snapping photos from a long telescopic lens. And then, of course, the usual self-assured act later on, as if to say, “All part of the plan.”.

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