Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions … - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.

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I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

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Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

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I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now. . . innovation and creativity are necessary.

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Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

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The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

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The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

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I was raised on Bruce Lee.

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I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.

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