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Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

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Welcome to the miserable middles of change. This is the time when Kanter's Law kicks in. Everything looks like a failure in the middle. Everyone loves inspiring beginnings and happy endings; it is just the middles that involve hard work.

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Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

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Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Born: March 15, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor of business at Harvard Business School, where she holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship. In addition she is director and chair of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative.
Known for:
  1. The change masters (1983)
  2. Men and Women of the Corporation (1977)
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