Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.”

“Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.”

“The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.”

“Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.”

“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 catego...”

“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.”

“Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.”

“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.”

“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 n...”

“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 e...”

“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 soci...”

“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 redist...”

“Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.”

“A great idea is not enough.”

“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.”

“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.”

“Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operat...”

“My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.”

“Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.”

“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.”