19 Quotes by Rosabeth Kanter
- 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.
- Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
- To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
- 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.
- The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
- 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.
- Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
- A great idea is not enough.
- Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
- Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
- Power is the ability to get things done.
- Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
- 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.
- I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
- 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.
- "No" is always an easier stand than "Yes.
- One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
- 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.
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