Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
17 editions
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2004
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Men and Women of the Corporation
13 editions
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1977
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Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
9 editions
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2015
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The Change Masters: Innovations for Productivity in the American Corporation
16 editions
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1985
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Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time
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SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
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2009
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When Giants Learn To Dance
17 editions
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1989
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Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective
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1972
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Evolve! : Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow
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2001
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World Class : Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
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1995
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“Michael Ward knows. Ward loves railroads. His loves his own railroad company, CSX, which traces its origins to 1827 when the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was formed as the nation’s first common carrier. He traces his own origins at CSX back thirty-seven years, when he took an analyst job as a newly minted Harvard Business School M.B.A., rising to become chairman, president, and CEO in 2003. And he loves the whole American freight rail industry. “Railroaders are like farmers,” Ward declares. “You heard about the farmer that won the lottery? They said to him, ‘Oh my gosh, you won the lottery; what are you going to do with all that money?’ He said, ‘I’m a farmer and I love farming, and I’m going to farm until every penny of it is gone.’ And I say railroaders are like that. When we make more money, we’re going to invest more back into the infrastructure, so we can strengthen the railroad and grow the business.” Ward may sound like a press release, but that’s exactly how he talks, and why he’s a major industry spokesman. He lavishes praise on industry performance: “While we’ve improved the profitability of the industry, we’ve also cut rates in half of what they were in 1980 for our customers, on an inflation-adjusted basis. We’re providing a more economical product to them, and it’s safer and more reliable. Over the years, as an industry, our train accident rate is down 80 percent; our personal injury rate is down 85 percent; and we’re doing this with about one-third of the workforce we had in 1980.” He calls the industry “the envy of the world.”
― Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
― Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
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