Those brawls made an impact on Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the author of the recently released book "Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End".
The women's-inclusion issue in the Obama White House is featured prominently in a controversial new book to be released Tuesday, "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President," by journalist Ron Suskind.
A separate Conference Board's index of consumer confidence, just released, shows consumer confidence at a five-month low -- and a large part is due to expectations of fewer jobs and lower wages in the months ahead.
You saw against Fulham [eight days ago] when he gets his chance – he is so sharp in and around the ball, he wins the ball, his energy … If he could just get that goal I'm sure that would release his confidence.
Evidence of the loss of confidence came this week when the Conference Board released its consumer confidence survey for March.
The Conference Board survey of consumer confidence, released this week, showed a rating of 115.4 for current conditions in November.
An index measuring consumer confidence, released this week, jumped to its highest level since 2007, the biggest increase in a single month.
Americans grew more pessimistic this month about the economy, their own finances and government budget policies, according to a survey of consumer confidence released Friday.
The ZEW survey of investor confidence, released by the ZEW Center for European Economic Research, and its consumer counterpart, the GfK survey, by the market research company GfK in Nuremberg, are also showing newfound vigor.
As investors tried to assess the recovery's strength, a snapshot of business confidence released Wednesday offered little clarity: wholesale inventories thinned unexpectedly in January, indicating rising demand from consumers, but businesses remained reluctant to build stockpiles.
