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
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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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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.