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  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Overview Confidence in an organization is more than just a spirit of "We can do it." It is the foundation, systems, and culture involving positive behaviors such as open communication, self-scrutiny, respect, teamwork,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • 11 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

confident about and what you need to work on." According to how the points are allocated, the app sorts the user into one of five basic negotiating styles, derived from Wheeler's past research (see chart) each with its own strengths and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

optimism were New Jersey Senator and former Goldman Sachs co-head Jon S. Corzine, and Ernst & Young chairman James S. Turley. In assessing the current business climate at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference at... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

American business are plainly visible for the whole world to see, Mills warned. Repairing the infrastructure is critically important to restore trust in American business, and tinkering with the rulebook is not enough. The process of instilling View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

helping them realize that you're all in the journey together. Confidence Confidence is not about being unafraid. It's about not letting fear, especially fear of failure, prevent your forward progress. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average quality of ideas offered for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • 16 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence A new book explains how managers can increase their understanding of how finance works. (7,014 visits) Most Comments from Readers Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

In Hiring, Should We Give Self-Confidence a Greater Weight Than Humility? Summing Up A respondent to this month’s column, Joel, provided the question for this summary. As he asked, "should we be focusing on hiring people who exude more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

be able to tell what may come, but it takes a whole lot of confidence and conviction to be able to act upon the vision and take preventive action." That confidence and conviction presumably has to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

relationship between the successful use of humor and status is mediated by perceptions of confidence and competence. The successful use of humor signals confidence and competence, which in turn increases the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2011
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is responsible for some of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

a deficit limit although a very high one.” Tony E opined, “The US is unique globally in providing a stable currency (that allows) the rest of the world to eliminate uncertainty in asset/commodity valuation." This confidence , he... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

find that investors have lower confidence about the information being disclosed” The reason is easy to understand. The conference call is designed to provide context to the many figures included in financial reports, yet when the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Anat Keinan shows that people who wear funky outfits to the office are often seen as more confident and as having higher status than those who dress to fit in. As writer Dina Gerdeman explains, “The researchers found that observers viewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

consumption situation: encountering opportunities for further learning. We argue and show that such opportunities can trigger a feeling-of-not-knowing-it-all (FONKIA), which lowers consumers’ confidence in their mastery of the knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

that meet the company’s standards on safety, caring, delivery and presentation. So if a customer service employee decides on the spot to waive a ticket holder’s fee because of an injury, she is confident that the company will approve.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

Each of these executives restored their people's confidence in themselves and in one another—a necessary antecedent to restoring investor or public confidence. They inspired and empowered their organizations to take new actions that could... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

not clear, investors represent good money if they're impatient for confidence in the emerging idea's profit model and patient for growth while that's being figured out. Scaling before having a viable profit formula commits resources to a... View Details
Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology
  • 08 Sep 2011
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

facing down the pressures of investors and Wall Street analysts. As Gaurav Goel puts it, "Steve's successors would need courage and confidence to do things differently." In particular, there will be a critical period until the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
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