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... [I]s it actually the case that people who proclaim themselves so loudly and so often to be winners actually succeed the most? My research into business leaders suggests they don’t. On the contrary, it suggests that such bombast is one of a slew of behaviors embraced by spectacularly unsuccessful business executives. Unfortunately, many of these habits are part and parcel of the Trump leadership playbook. For my book "Why Smart Executives Fail," I interviewed some 200 people at 50 companies to learn why some people in business don't merely lose, but lose big. I discovered an interesting pattern: Spectacularly...

epublican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson smiles at the thought of the money he's raking in from the gullible and the attention he's getting from Donald Trump and Joe Scaroborough (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik -- caption by me.) If yesterday's assertion by Ben Carson that he was putting a lot of effort into campaigning in South Carolina (he's not, he is taking this weekend off and has only run 182 radio/television ads, all of them in Columbia, SC.) and that he has a plan for moving forward convinced you he was either delusional or dishonest, the balance has radically tipped to...