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
leadership wisdom winning
If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
leadership eye hands
in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.
leadership responsibility endure
Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.
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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 based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.
leadership justice community
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
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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, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.
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.
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Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
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Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
best replicate whatever
When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.