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
opportunity self limits
The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
opportunity roots evil
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 can be the root of opportunity.
opportunity america trials
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.
opportunity men careers
Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.
opportunity giving people
... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.
business power opportunity
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
dream opportunity careers
Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.
opportunity done threat
Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.
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.
american-businessman cheap compete labor united
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
aspects business complex financial groups guide happens interact motivate nature people requires running understanding
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.