Weekly Hotlist: Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence

 

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January 06, 2014 Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence By Rosabeth Moss Kanter Achieve your goals this year.

Diversity White People Do Good Things for One Another, and That's Bad for Hiring by Nancy DiTomaso To make truly unbiased decisions, you need to first believe you can be biased. Innovation Use Language to Shape a Creative Culture by Tom Kelley and David Kelley Lessons from IDEO. Career planning The Dangerous Myth of Reinvention by Marc Freedman It's time to rethink the fantasy of 50- and 60-somethings confronting uncharted career territory. Managing yourself Achieve Your Goals in 2014 — Here's Research That Can Help by Gretchen Gavett Twenty-two motivating (and often surprising) tips from our archive. Managing yourself The Key to Making New Year's Resolutions Stick by Francesca Gino Find that "fresh start" feeling throughout the year. Managing yourself Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: A Guide for the Terrified by Andy Molinsky It's not easy, but these three tips can help. Talent management Why I Put My Company on a Year-Long Sabbatical by Simon Cohen The answer is simple: So we could come back even better. Managing yourself 10 Extraordinary People and Their Lessons for Success by Sarah Green Our favorite moments from a year of Life's Work interviews.

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