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
views optimism causes
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.
character expectations optimism
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
believe thinking optimism
The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?
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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.
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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.