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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 15
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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.
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Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.
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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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Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.
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The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
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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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Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes winning possible.
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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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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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Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
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The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
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Power is the ability to get things done
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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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The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
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It is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.
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If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
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A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
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