"Instead of squeezing the self to 'resolve' things quickly, they spread out the commitments and proceed at a manageable pace, with benchmarks to understand and celebrate their progress, " HaLevey says.

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Margaret Thatcher's conviction, her resolve, her iron self-belief led many to see her as Britain's post-war saviour - the woman who cured the so-called "British disease", tamed trade unions and vanquished the Argentine Junta in the South Atlantic.

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But more complicated self-referential paradoxes are trickier to resolve.

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For groups that will be inclined to react with anxiety or anger, top management visibly demonstrates passion, self-confidence, and a steely resolve to help channel that fear and anger into a determination to act and win.

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If self-confident celebrities can confront each other and resolve their disagreements, so too can diverse individuals thrust together in a business environment.

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Earlier this month Ken Clarke told the Conservative Party conference that the government was drawing up policies to "resolve public doubts on the law of self defence by victims of crime".

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Many of us believe that when we feel down, we should try to focus inwardly and evaluate our feelings and our situation in order to attain self-insight and find solutions that might ultimately resolve our problems and relieve unhappiness.

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He told me that most pediatricians don't know a lot about hemangiomas, which can actually take as long as a decade to resolve, plenty of time for it to do a number on a child's self-esteem.

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Each week, a session is set aside for group work, during which the students work on their self-esteem and communication skills, gain knowledge of their rights and the rules of the centre, analyse and resolve conflicts within the group and evaluate the activities in which they have participated.

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