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Confidence

How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Crown, 2004

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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, including sports teams. She has hidden many pearls of wisdom in this refresher on managerial basics, especially morale building

Take-Aways

Confidence requires belief in yourself, your teammates, your systems and processes, and your network.
Panicking when bad things happen, neglecting the fundamentals and denying the facts destroy confidence.
You may not be able to choose your circumstances, but you can choose how you react to them.

About the Author

Rosabeth Moss Kanter has been a professor at Harvard Business School since 1986 and was editor of the Harvard Business Review from 1989 to 1992. An adviser to numerous companies and governments, she serves on the boards of several public service organizations, including City Year, the national urban youth service corp. This is her sixteenth book.

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interesting course
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It is Good & Interesting course.
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