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17 counterintuitive things the most successful people do

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Picking fights, isolating yourself and purposefully offending people don’t seem like they are a recipe for success. They seem like they are a recipe for ostracization and failure. But as exceptions that prove the rule, there are those legendary business leaders who got where they are precisely by doing these kinds of out-of-bounds behaviors. Read on to see who made the list, and what for.