Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence is not just in people's heads; it comes from the culture of the organization. It's easier to expect success when working…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex -…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter