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
power law resources
Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
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It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
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Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.
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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.
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Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
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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.
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The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.
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It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.
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My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
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Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
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Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.