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tasks, 98–101, 234–35

executive compensation and size of institution, 93–94

financial institutions, bankers vs. traders, 93

leveraging your association with a prestigious institution, 102–5

political contributions and politicians’ voting behavior, 93

power as self-reinforcing process, 94

professional associations, 102

providing attention and support, 97–98

what a resource is, 97

Rice, Condoleezza, 87

RJR Nabisco, 193

Robb, Charles, 126

Roizen, Heidi, 106–7, 108, 114

role playing, 128–30, 181

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 232

Rosenberg, Richard, 195

Rosenthal, Robert, 150

Rubenstein, Atoosa, 129–30

Rubin, Harriet, 128, 130

rules

favoring people who make them, 86

standing out and breaking, 5, 9, 82–86

Rushdie, Salman, 145

salaries, 23, 245n. 27

compensation and size of institution, 93–94

confidence and, 51

Hay system, 95

intelligence and, 245n. 27

networking and, 110

power of unit and, 58

relative pay in department and power of, 69

social capital and, 122

women and, 51

San Francisco Zen Center, 196

SAP, 60–63, 66–67, 71, 73, 94–95, 170, 171, 222

Schaeberle, Robert, 193

Schoorman, David, 22–23

Schwab, Klaus, 103–4, 248n. 8

Scully, John, 20

Security Pacific Bank, 194

Seeman, Patricia, 192, 203

self-assessment, 37, 39–42, 228

advice from others, 42

lack of self-knowledge, 41–42

self-enhancement motive, 31, 37, 42, 95, 228–39

structured reflection and, 48–49

self-deprecation, 136

self-enhancement motive, 31, 37, 42, 95, 228–39

self-esteem

enhancing people’s self-esteem and compliance, 81

“face” and, 169

fear of rejection and, 78

“self-handicapping” to avoid failure risk, 13–14

“self-handicapping,” 8, 13–15

task performance and, 14

self-knowledge, 39–42, 48–49

lack of, 41–42

structured reflection and, 48–49

setbacks, 177–82

continuing to do what made you successful, 179–81

embarrassment as response, 178–79

importance of talking about what happened, 179

projecting power and success, 181–82

Shearson American Express, 164

Siminoff, David, 214

Simonton, Dean Keith, 45

Singapore, 54, 205–6

Sloan, Alfred, 199

Smartest Guys in the Room, The (McLean and Elkind), 56

Smith, Sally Bedell, 99, 197

social capital, 110, 112, 122. See also networking

“social facilitation effect,” 185

social perception, 149–53

Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey, 96, 177–78, 179, 180–81, 182, 211

Sony Corporation, 84–85

Sotomayor, Sonia, 55–56

Southwest Airlines, 143

speaking powerfully, 139–46

contesting the premises of the discussion, 140–42

five linguistic techniques, 143–45

hot-button terms, 143

humor and, 145

interruption, 140

Molotch and Boden study, 140–41

opportunities for, 146

persuasive language, 142–46

sentence structure and, 145–46

three faces of power and, 140–41

standing out, 26–27, 35, 82

asking, effectiveness of, 75–82

“brand recall,” 27, 85

breaking the rules and, 82–86

differentiating yourself, 82–86, 235

Japan and, 26, 84–85

Keith Ferrazzi and, 75–76

“mere exposure effect,” 27

Reginald Lewis and, 76–77

salience and networking, 111, 114, 235

Stanford University, 87

Donald Kennedy scandal, 127

hospital merger, 170

Sloan program, 102–3

Stanton, Frank, 44, 98–99

status, 220, 256n. 14

status hierarchies, 118–19

Stonecipher, Harry, 184

Strange Justice (Mayer and Abramson), 89

Summers, Larry, 161–62

Sun, Tony, 214

Surowiecki, James, 224, 225

Sutton, Robert, 184

Talk magazine, 28

Tauzin, Billy, 109

Thain, John, 88

Tharp, Twyla, 38

Thiry, Kent, 46

Thomas, Clarence, 89

Thornton, Tex, 63

Tiedens, Larissa, 133–34, 220

Time, Inc., 72

TLC Group, 76–77

trust dilemmas, 191–94, 204–6, 233

Tucker, Gordon, 209

Ueberroth, Peter, 130, 138

Uhlmann, Eric, 135

Universal Studios, 36

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

breast cancer care center, 52–53, 164–66, 173, 176

hospital merger, 170

Mt. Zion Medical Center, 224

University of Illinois, 59, 72, 168

Unruh, Jesse, 92

unskilled and unaware of it, 41, 244n. 6

Valenti, Jack,

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