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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

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. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979.