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
leadership powerful role-models
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
leadership creativity elements
Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.
absolute-power absolutes powerlessness
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
leadership motivation different
Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.
leadership justice community
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
passion goal excellence
Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.
looks management life-is
A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
looks middle
Everything looks like a failure in the middle.
leadership eye hands
in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.
encouragement caring people
Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
boss world able
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
retirement careers impact
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
innovation volume lows
In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.
sight doubt vision
Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.