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
jobs organization support
if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.
jobs work organization
Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.
business organization increase
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
teaching creativity organization
I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.
organization desire innovative
Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.
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.
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.
admired among developed effective highly history human people respected throughout
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.
allow alone blocs creates divisions easier hardened people produce resist root structures tenure
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.