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
winning causes negative
Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.
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Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.
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The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row
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If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
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Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.
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I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
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I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
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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.
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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.
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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.