Rosabeth Moss Kanter quotes

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Everything looks like a failure in the middle.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
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 become something more.
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 yet exist.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A great idea is not enough.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row. (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 exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
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 sacrifice.
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 of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Power is the ability to get things done.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"No" is always an easier stand than "Yes.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
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 hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter