Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes
"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Ideas, Causes, Leaders)
"Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: People)
"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Idea, Waiting)
"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Business, Women, America, Conviction, World)
"The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Goal, Winning, Losing)
"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Belief, Growth, Possibilities, Right, Satisfaction, Today, Utopia)
"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Power, Labor, states, United)
"A great idea is not enough."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Idea)
"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Behavior, Enemy, Innovation)
"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Family, History, Corporate, World)
"Power is the ability to get things done."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Power, Ability)
"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Bosses, World)
"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: History, Sacrifice, Freedom)
"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."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Sports, Negative, Positive, Winning, Language, Losing)
"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Projects)
"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: People, Leaders)
""No" is always an easier stand than "Yes."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Losing)
"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Vision)