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Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
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Abstract

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. Based on 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 expores a new theory and pracice of success and provides people in leadership postiions with a prescriptive program for maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.

Keywords

Social Psychology

Citation

Kanter, Rosabeth M. Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006. (Paperback edition with new Foreword, Epilogue, and Appendix.)
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