Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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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.… (more)

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Invested in this after reading an interesting puff article in "Reader's Digest" - wish I hadn't bothered! All Kanter seems capable of telling us - after lots of page-filling information about specific sports teams - is that failure has a nasty habit of begetting failure, so if we want to succeed, we'd better take care not to lose twice in a row.

If you needed to know that, you might want to read this book. Otherwise, forget it! (

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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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