Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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  • Pub. Date: August 2004
  • 416pp
  • Sales Rank: 377,760

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    • Pub. Date: August 2004
    • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
    • Format: Hardcover, 416pp
    • Sales Rank: 377,760

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    Why do the Yankees always seem to win and the Red Sox fade? Why companies such as Dell never seem to lose their halo? Why is Nelson Mandela an example for leaders in trouble spots? From sports to business and complicated political situations, a common element persists: people succeed when they have confidence. Kanter offers a new theory of success in which winning and losing are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories. She demonstrates why organizations of all types may have talent but not winners.

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    Kanter is at her best when explaining how leaders shape and change the culture of an institution. The most interesting stories are those of partial and difficult successes -- reforming the BBC, say, or creating a post-apartheid South Africa. Through her careful analysis of Mandela's fundamental beliefs -- a commitment to dialogue, a respect for foes, accountability, a willingness to collaborate, an emphasis on shared values -- Kanter illustrates how leaders can change a nation. Confidence is a successful book on leadership that illuminates underlying principles applicable to teams and small businesses as well as schools, corporations and countries.— The Washington Post

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    Biography

    ROSABETH MOSS KANTER is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School. She is the former editor of Harvard Business Review and is an advisor to prominent corporations, governments, school systems, and community organizations, from IBM to the Girl Scouts. Dr. Kanter is the author of such groundbreaking books as Men and Women of the Corporation (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award for the book that best analyzes a social problem), The Change Masters, When Giants Learn to Dance, and Evolve!

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    Must read....by Ride2fast4me

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    January 29, 2010: This book is a must read for anyone who is attempting to get an organization out of a losing streak...I have turned around 2-3 businesses by focusing on accountability (performance management), teamwork (see team exercises, i.e. kaizen), and innovation (internal and external)...pretty powerful stuff!

    A professorial look at the key components of confidenceby Anonymous

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    November 06, 2006: Why do winning streaks and losing streaks continue in sports, business, politics, education and even in individual personal lives? The answer, according to Harvard University business administration professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, is 'not in our stars, but in ourselves.' Winners have, and losers lack, a distinct, learnable, positive attitude toward the future, which Kanter boldly sums up in a word: confidence. Drawing on more than 300 interviews with top coaches, business people and other leaders, and using data from two surveys of more than 1,200 companies, Kanter illustrates the keys to confidence with case studies of various organizations, especially some win-from-behind sports teams. While many pearls are hidden at the bottom of her text, be prepared to dive through a murky sea of verbiage to find them. Nevertheless, we recommend it confidently to those who want a (mostly) painless refresher on managerial basics, especially morale building.


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