How overconfidence can sabotage your career and your company
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It can be difficult to know when you’ve crossed over from confident to overconfident. Here’s how to keep your ego in check.
A wealth of research studies indicate that between 70% and 90% of acquisitions fail to add value to acquiring firms. Research has also shown that the high failure rate is attributable largely to the cognitive bugbear Daniel Kahneman, the author of Thinking Fast and Slow, cites as the most pernicious of all: overconfidence.