Rosabeth Moss Kanter
11 quotes
Biography
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an American sociologist who is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018.
"Everything looks like a failure in the middle."
"Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely."
"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
"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."
"Power is the ability to get things done."
"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."
"Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us."
"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."
"Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome."
"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."