Includes index.

How to build confidence: become more self-assured at work / by Amy Gallo -- Overcome the eight barriers to confidence: from self-defeating assumptions to defensiveness to arrogance / by Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Everyone suffers from impostor syndrome-here's how to handle it: change your frame of mind when you're feeling inadequate / by Andy Molinsky -- Mental preparation secrets of top athletes: how rituals can help you manage your anxiety, an interview with Daniel McGinn / by Sarah Green Carmichael -- Research-learning a little about something makes us overconfident: experience can be deceiving, especially to novices / by Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning -- To ace your job interview, get into character and rehearse: develop new parts of yourself through performance / by Cathy Salit -- Ways to look more confident during a presentation: what your body language signals to your audience / by Kasia Wezowski -- You don't just need one leadership voice, you need many: be more authentic and inspire confidence in others / by Amy Jen Su -- Cultivate a culture of confidence: build team resilience to recover from setbacks / by Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Great leaders are confident, connected, committed, and courageous: gather your emotional courage in the face of risk / by Peter Bregman -- Helping an employee overcome their self-doubt: address their inner critic head-on / by Tara Sophia Mohr -- To seem confident, women have to be seen as warm: female leaders face an unfair standard / by Margarita Mayo -- Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?: don't confuse confidence with competence / by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic -- Less-confident people are more successful: self-criticism can be motivating / by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

In order to build trust, gain buy-in, and move up in your organization, you need to be confident. But self-doubt and anxiety can break your composure--and faking it doesn't feel comfortable. How do you push these insecurities away? This book explains how you can better understand your emotions to become more self-assured at work. You'll learn from the latest research what is holding you back, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and when too much confidence can actually hurt you.--