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7 Things Leaders Can Do to be Refreshingly Different

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Feeling silly, self-conscious, and embarrassed, I would have prayed for the red light to be short. The pressure to conform and the desire to belong are enormous, and together they can influence our actions. Political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann calls this behavior the spiral of silence.