You can get places with confidence, but you can't really stay there with confidence alone. Women, for instance. The guys who can't a girl are just not confident. Cliche, yes, but what that really means is that they don't trust what they really have. Women, and anyone for that matter, can see that. You've got to know who you are, and be good with that. It doesn't mean you can't figure out new ways of doing things.
At my old job, I had a director who had clearly gotten where he was by being confidently dishonest. The problem for him being that he was exposed rather quickly by people who actually knew what they were doing. He's been bumped down to the non-profit world since.
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