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Jan 2025
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715: How to Stand Up for Yourself, with ...

DAVE STACHOWIAK
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Sunita Sah: Defy Sunita Sah is an award-winning professor at Cornell University and an expert in organizational psychology, leading groundbreaking research on influence, authority, compliance, and defiance. A trained physician, her research and analyses have been widely published in leading academic journals and media entities including The New York Times, ... Show More
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