| Contents Notes |
Part one : Winners and losers : how confidence grows or erodes. The locker room and the playing field : booms, busts, streaks, and cycles -- Winning streaks : the cycle of success -- Why winning streaks end -- Losing streaks : "powerlessness corrupts" and other dynamics of decline -- Why losing streaks persist -- Part two : Turnarounds : the art of building confidence. The turnaround challenge -- The first stone : facing facts and reinforcing responsibility -- The second stone : cultivating collaboration -- The third stone : inspiring initiative and innovation -- A culture of confidence : leading a nation from despair to hope -- Part three : Implications and life lessons. Delivering confidence : the work of leaders -- Winning streaks, losing streaks, and the game of life. My first goal in writing this book was empowerment. I wanted to give more people the tools and the confidence to avoid the destructive patterns of losing streaks and get onto winning paths -- whether they are executives concerned with business strategy, managers and employees looking for ways to foster teamwork and a creative work environment, coaches and fans cheering their favorite teams to victory, professionals interested in success trajectories, or community activists seeking to improve the quality of life at home. I wanted to understand confidence in order to spread it.-- The author looks at winning and losing in the business world, arguing that the key to success lies in an organization's character, perseverance, winning tradition, and confidence. |
