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superhuman physical size
: Steve Salerno made this point in his book 
Sham
(New York:
Crown Publishers, 2005), 75. He also made the later point about Robbins’s remark that he
was once so poor that he kept his dishes in the bathtub.
6.
Founded in 1908 … “educating leaders who make a difference in the world”
: Harvard
Business School website, September 11, 2010.
7.
 
President George W. Bush … were HBS grads
: Philip Delves Broughton, 
Ahead of the
Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
(New York: Penguin, 2008), 2. See also
www.reuters.com
, Factbox: Jeffrey Skilling, June 24, 2010.
8.
 
will graduate into a business culture
: Stanford Business School professor of applied
psychology Thomas Harrell tracked Stanford MBAs who graduated between 1961 and 1965,
and published a series of studies about them. He found that high earners and general
managers tended to be outgoing and extroverted. See, e.g., Thomas W. Harrell and Bernard
Alpert, “Attributes of Successful MBAs: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study,” 
Human Performance
2, no. 4 (1989): 301-322.
9.
“ ‘Here everyone knows that it’s important to be an extrovert’ ”
: Reggie Garrison et al.,
“Managing Introversion and Extroversion in the Workplace,” Wharton Program for Working
Professionals (WPWP) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2006).
10.
 
BOSS TO TED AND ALICE
: Here I must apologize: I can’t recall the company that ran this ad, and
haven’t been able to locate it.
11.
 
“
DEPART FROM YOUR INHIBITIONS
”
: 
http://www.advertolog.com/amtrak/print-outdoor/depart-
from-your-inhibitions-2110505/
 (accessed September 11, 2010).
12.