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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Quite subconsciously, people seek to justify the efforts they have undertaken, and that instigates a process of commitment. According to Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance , people seek to avoid inconsistency, and one way of accomplish that is to adjust their attitudes to be consistent with their behaviors.