All Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes
- After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… All
- Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits. Become Habits
- Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results. Bridge
- Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. Behavior
- Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Authority
- 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… Action
- The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved,… Assume
- Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees,… Bits
- Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me. Change
- Everything looks like a failure in the middle. Everything Looks
- Power is the ability to get things done Ability
- The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row Goal
- I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. Achieve
- People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial… Accomplishment
- Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist. Doe
- Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try. Go
- Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. Abandon
- The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today,… Achieved
- The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations. Aspiration
- Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are… Automatic
- Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. Arrogance
- In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation. Companies
- Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Absolute
- Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it… All
- Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections. Attempt