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Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 15
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Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.
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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
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Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes winning possible.
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Embrace change as an opportunity to learn, to improve, to make a difference in others' lives as well as in your own. Have the courage to challenge the status quo. Remember that preparation and ambition in combination with opportunity equals success. And have fun!
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Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.
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The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
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Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
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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.
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Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
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The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
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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.
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... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.
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In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.
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Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.
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A great idea is not enough.
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It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
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Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
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Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
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