In these challenging economic times, critical thinking and self-confident leadership are more important than ever.
And loud and very self-confident CEO Carol Bartz is doing nothing to rectify that problem.
Maybe the Obama campaign mavens drilled their candidate hard on not appearing smug or too self-confident.
He is a self-confident fellow, although his sense of humour protects him from arrogance.
How can a man who had such a difficult background be so preternaturally self-confident?
ECONOMIST: The Democratic National Convention: Ready on the left | The
But this self-confident Euro-enthusiasm, bolstered by one of the fastest-growing EU economies, can easily stray into arrogance.
Self-confident, protective and even heroic, under stress they can turn into ego-centric bullies who are secretive and fearful.
As the Brookings researchers pointed out, even the least self-confident Singaporean students, on average, outscored the most self-confident Americans.
Any skill-based team, built around real functional experts, requires strong, in-touch, self-confident leadership, and Amundsen exemplified these leadership attributes.
"The girls in particular come back way more self-confident and empowered, " he says.
WSJ: Ah, Wilderness! Mountain Man vs. the Building Inspector
That was because these supremely self-confident money managers were more than fully invested.
They've managed to turn a self-confident and appealing candidate into one who is afraid of veering off her talking points.
CNN: Borger: McCain's bold Palin move becomes a crisis of caution
Partly it is a question of style: most congressmen tolerate, rather than warm to, Mr Zoellick's self-confident intellectualism and highfalutin ideas.
ECONOMIST: Great stuff, but does it have the president's support?
Still, perhaps her performance is too strong, and there might be an argument for a less self-confident actress in the role.
It therefore takes a skilful and self-confident operator to pull it off.
If self-confident celebrities can confront each other and resolve their disagreements, so too can diverse individuals thrust together in a business environment.
FORBES: The Celebrity Apprentice: TV's Lone Voice Trumpeting Business
In a television debate on May 18th, the boyish-looking Mr McGuinty appeared hesitant beside the self-confident and smiling figure of Mr Harris.
And Tyrion, you may not be singing such a self-confident tune with Renly to the left of you and Stannis to the right.
It's this kind of arrogance passing for self-confident optimism that gave us the economic mess we have had for the past five years.
He is self-confident, which is not unusual in a senior politician.
One aspect that is inherent in a self-confident individual is composure.
In dealing with it, we should show respect but also strength, the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief that we can achieve our aims.
Fred Thompson, making his first appearance in one of these multicandidate contests, smiled his self-confident smile and observed that he was actually a member of a union.
His book gives a chapter to each year, stitching together developments in the German-speaking world (his forte) as well as neurotic France, reactionary Russia and self-confident Britain.
His is a brisk, self-confident form of poshness: think of a young officer in one of the smarter regiments, getting on with the job in some global hotspot.
They taught as to be humble, strong, tender and self-confident.
Sony, being the quixotic, open-minded and self-confident company it is, claimed to have no trouble with that, and even gave Mr Nathan carte blanche to probe where he pleased.
Ms. Brown, who died Monday at a Manhattan hospital at age 90, imagined the "Cosmo Girl" self-confident, sexy and career-oriented (and perhaps indifferent to children, as Ms. Brown professed to be).
Today, Democrats are enjoying the spectacle of the well-financed, well-endorsed, sometimes preeningly self-confident Romney getting beat up in primary contests by the ideological equivalents of what prizefighters call tomato cans.
Most of the time, the characters sit around or drive somewhere, matching wits or making critical remarks about one another, the best of which are delivered by the devastatingly self-confident Page.
应用推荐