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on preference and choice is important and well demonstrated.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Brooke Shields, Anne Curry, Meredith Vieira, Bianna Golodryga, Maureen Dowd, Arianna Huffington, Tina Fey, Maria Bartiromo, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Carly Fiorina, Sherry Lansing, Kathy Freston, Maria Shriver, and Marianne Williamson.

Whose views are most influential within the broader social network? Who do I need to engage with outside the organization if I am to most effectively influence how people inside the organization think? What other perspectives can I bring into these interactions to help us all move toward our collective futures?

At the forefront are the innovators, who are typically well respected in their communities and have connections outside of their communities that give them exposure to new ideas.

Because of the position I was in, I found myself at the epicenter of the personal development movement, spending time with such legendary figures as Jan Miller, the famous literary agent for personal development authors; Dick Snyder, then CEO of Simon & Schuster, the biggest personal development publisher; Jimmy Bowen, the music producer; and O

The personal development movement has been driven largely by individual people’s personal experience and the teachings of compelling teachers, people like Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy, and Jim Rohn.

This reasoning leads to a hypothesis: the people who have the greatest influence on the lives of others are likely to be optimistic and overconfident, and to take more risks than they realize.

Charlie Munger, Ed Thorp, Howard Marks, Joel Greenblatt, Bill Miller, Mohnish Pabrai, Tom Gayner, Guy Spier, Fred Martin, Ken Shubin Stein, Matthew McLennan, Jeffrey Gundlach, Francis Chou, Thyra Zerhusen, Thomas Russo, Chuck Akre, Li Lu, Peter Lynch, Pat Dorsey, Michael Price, Mason Hawkins, Bill Ackman, Jeff Vinik, Mario Gabelli, Laura Geritz, Br