Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Businesswoman
1943-03-15
Quotes by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.
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Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.
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I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.
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Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.
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It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.
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Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
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Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
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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.
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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.
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One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
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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.
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