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Confidence

How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End

How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End

How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter

By Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9781400052912

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    About Confidence

    From the locker room to the living room to the boardroom—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

    Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

    There’s a fundamental principle at work–confidence–that makes the difference between winning and losing in any competition, be it a high school basketball game or a high-stakes business situation. In Confidence, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners. Based on her extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines and Verizon and sports teams such as the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the arenas of education, health care, and politics, Kanter explores a new theory and practice of success and provides people in leadership positions with a prescriptive program for maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.

    Packed with brilliant, practical ideas, Confidence provides fresh thinking about success in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.

    About Confidence

    From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

    Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

    There’s a fundamental principle at work—the vital but previously unexamined factor called confidence—that permits unexpected people to achieve high levels of performance through routines that activate talent. Confidence explains:

    • Why the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team continues its winning ways even though recent teams lack the talent of their predecessors
    • Why some companies are always positively perceived by employees, customers, Wall Street analysts, and the media while others are under a perpetual cloud
    • How a company like Gillette or a team like the Chicago Cubs ends a losing streak and breaks out of a circle of doom
    • The lessons a politician such as Nelson Mandela, who resisted the temptation to take revenge after being released from prison and assuming power, offers for leaders in both advanced democracies and trouble spots like the Middle East

    From the simplest ball games to the most complicated business and political situations, the common element in winning is a basic truth about people: They rise to the occasion when leaders help them gain the confidence to do it.

    Confidence is the new theory and practice of success, explaining why success and failure are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories. Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners, and provides people in leadership positions with a practical program for either maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.
    Confidence is based on an extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines, Seagate, and Verizon and sports teams such as the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team, New England Patriots, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as schools, health care, and politics.

    Packed with brilliant, practical ideas such as “powerlessness corrupts” and the “timidity of mediocrity,” Confidence provides fresh thinking for perpetuating winning streaks and ending losing streaks in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.

    About Confidence

    From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

    Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

    There’s a fundamental principle at work—the vital but previously unexamined factor called confidence—that permits unexpected people to achieve high levels of performance through routines that activate talent. Confidence explains:

    • Why the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team continues its winning ways even though recent teams lack the talent of their predecessors
    • Why some companies are always positively perceived by employees, customers, Wall Street analysts, and the media while others are under a perpetual cloud
    • How a company like Gillette or a team like the Chicago Cubs ends a losing streak and breaks out of a circle of doom
    • The lessons a politician such as Nelson Mandela, who resisted the temptation to take revenge after being released from prison and assuming power, offers for leaders in both advanced democracies and trouble spots like the Middle East

    From the simplest ball games to the most complicated business and political situations, the common element in winning is a basic truth about people: They rise to the occasion when leaders help them gain the confidence to do it.

    Confidence is the new theory and practice of success, explaining why success and failure are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories. Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners, and provides people in leadership positions with a practical program for either maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.
    Confidence is based on an extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines, Seagate, and Verizon and sports teams such as the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team, New England Patriots, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as schools, health care, and politics.

    Packed with brilliant, practical ideas such as “powerlessness corrupts” and the “timidity of mediocrity,” Confidence provides fresh thinking for perpetuating winning streaks and ending losing streaks in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.

    About Confidence

    From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

    Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

    There’s a fundamental principle at work—the vital but previously unexamined factor called confidence—that permits unexpected people to achieve high levels of performance through routines that activate talent. Confidence explains:

    • Why the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team continues its winning ways even though recent teams lack the talent of their predecessors
    • Why some companies are always positively perceived by employees, customers, Wall Street analysts, and the media while others are under a perpetual cloud
    • How a company like Gillette or a team like the Chicago Cubs ends a losing streak and breaks out of a circle of doom
    • The lessons a politician such as Nelson Mandela, who resisted the temptation to take revenge after being released from prison and assuming power, offers for leaders in both advanced democracies and trouble spots like the Middle East

    From the simplest ball games to the most complicated business and political situations, the common element in winning is a basic truth about people: They rise to the occasion when leaders help them gain the confidence to do it.

    Confidence is the new theory and practice of success, explaining why success and failure are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories. Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners, and provides people in leadership positions with a practical program for either maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.
    Confidence is based on an extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines, Seagate, and Verizon and sports teams such as the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team, New England Patriots, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as schools, health care, and politics.

    Packed with brilliant, practical ideas such as “powerlessness corrupts” and the “timidity of mediocrity,” Confidence provides fresh thinking for perpetuating winning streaks and ending losing streaks in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.

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    About Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Named by the Times of London as one of the “50 most powerful women in the world,” Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confidence; The Change Masters, named… More about Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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    Named by the Times of London as one of the “50 most powerful women in the world,” Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confidence; The Change Masters, named… More about Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    About Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Named by the Times of London as one of the “50 most powerful women in the world,” Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confidence; The Change Masters, named… More about Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    About Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Named by the Times of London as one of the “50 most powerful women in the world,” Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confidence; The Change Masters, named… More about Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Product Details

    Category: Business | Self-Improvement & Inspiration | Psychology

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Crown Currency
    Feb 28, 2006 | 432 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400052912

    Category: Business | Self-Improvement & Inspiration | Psychology

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Crown Currency
    Sep 07, 2004 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781400080953

    Category: Business | Self-Improvement & Inspiration | Psychology | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Aug 31, 2004 | 369 Minutes | ISBN 9780739314043

    Category: Business | Self-Improvement & Inspiration | Psychology | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jun 04, 2004 | 788 Minutes | ISBN 9781415917558

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    Praise

    A Business Week Bestseller

    “Confidence . . . makes the compelling argument that the people who succeed are the people who expect to succeed.” —Elle

    “A successful book on leadership that illuminates the underlying principles applicable to teams and small businesses as well as schools, corporations, and countries.” —Washington Post

    “Well-researched and engaging. . . . Kanter is a witty and entertaining writer.” —Miami Herald

    “Finally, there’s a powerful book that digs out the truth about winners in every walk of life.” —David Gergen, editor at large, U.S. News and World Report, and presidential counselor  

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