Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor of business at Harvard Business School, where she holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship. In addition she is director and chair of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
ideas enough great-idea
A great idea is not enough.
order years ideas
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.
inspirational ideas wings
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
ideas leader encounters
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.
ideas people decision
People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.
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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 people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.
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I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.
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Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
audience image work
The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.
almost streak
It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.
involves
My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
american-businessman family history
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
failure persuade yankees
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
changed large pool talented women
We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.