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Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
American
Businesswoman
Born:
Mar 15
,
1943
History
Losing
Own
People
World
You
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Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
People
Encouragement
Caring
Support
Most
Provide
Friendly
Eager
Needed
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.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Alone
People
Voting
Long
Redistricting
Own
Group
Collaboration
Distinctions
Easier
Compromise
Structures
Take
Allow
Divisions
Tenure
Makes
Same
Departments
Which
Turf
Produce
Root
Creates
Organizational
Congressional
Hardened
Resist
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Innovation
Enemy
Behavior
Mindless
Habitual
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
Vision
Better
Picture
Become
Our
Something
More
Could
Call
Selves
Just
Appeal
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
People
Seen
Before
Out
Must
About
Something
Never
Excited
Leaders
Does
Inertia
Exist
Wake
Get
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.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Nature
Business
People
Management
Financial
Understanding
Matters
Guide
Complex
Systems
Running
Operate
How
Motivate
Interact
Different
Happens
Organisations
Aspects
Requires
Groups
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Family
History
World
Long
Corporate
Corporate World
Responsibilities
About
Long History
Ambivalence
Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
People
Try
Too Many People
Too
Others
Back
Way
More
Go
Stand
Many
'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.'
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Easier
Always
Yes
Than
Stand
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
Today
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Possibilities
Part
Institution
Exist
Existed
Human
Achieved
Movement
Again
Social
Century
Commune
Creating
Belief
Satisfaction
Utopia
Growth
Right
Power is the ability to get things done.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Power
Ability
Get
Done
Things
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
Power
Way
States
Cheap
Brain
Brain Power
Labor
Going
United
United States
Compete
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
Freedom
History
Matter
Achieve
Entitled
Sacrifice
Our
Total
Total Freedom
Determined
Were
Taught
Us
Lessons
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Life
Will
Stage
Boomers
Arc
Impact
Inventing
Retirement
Term
New
New Career
Biggest
Career
We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Women
Reality
Pool
Changed
Talented
Educated
Accommodate
Large
Lives
Necessarily
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.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Best
You
Try
Whatever
Think
Back
Something
Fail
Make
Replicate
Did
Happen
Them
Successes
Your
Thing
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
History
People
Strong
Respected
Corporations
Admired
Only
Rituals
Throughout
Developed
Highly
Most
Also
Traditions
Effective
Celebrated
Human
Human History
Organizations
Loyalties
Among
Profitable
Symbols
Coincidence
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