Explore Quotes by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

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.

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.

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

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

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

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

Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.

It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.

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.

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.

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

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.'

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

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.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

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.

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.