Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

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• Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Change, Positive, Opportunity

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• A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

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  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Vision

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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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  Leadership, Creativity, Kaleidoscope

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• Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

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  Sight, Doubt, Vision

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2003). “Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It And Leaders Guide It”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

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  Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

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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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  Fun, Ambition, Opportunity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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  People, Trying, Way

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• The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

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  People, Vision, Conversation

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, People, Leader

  "3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment". "The Business" with Brian Kenny, www.hbs.edu. March 11, 2014.

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• Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.

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  Team, Moving, Successful

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between "winners" and "losers" is not whether they face obstacles and setbacks - we all do, and it is inevitable that plans do not unfold exactly as imagined or that unexpected events surprise us or that a few mistakes happen. The real difference is that "winners" bounce back from a fumble or a loss by refusing to panic, analyzing the situation and looking for positive actions they can take to correct the problem, and then go on to resume winning.

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  Real, Mistake, Loss

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

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  Winning, Differences, Small Wins

  "Building a winning boardroom team". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

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  People, Accomplishment, Goal

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• The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

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  Change, Design, Patterns

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

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  Change, Bulldogs, Appearance

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• The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

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  Believe, Thinking, Optimism

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• Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.

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  Passion, Goal, Excellence

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• 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.

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  Talking, Ideas, Leader

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• Change demands new learning.

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  Demand

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

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  Innovation, Enemy, Inquiry

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• A great thinker once described innovative thinkers this way: "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" Innovative thinkers are constantly asking questions such as these. How can we improve recruiting, hiring and training. How can be add greater value to our products and services by making them even better? How can we do more to nourish the personal as well as professional development of our people? What more can we do as a good citizen where we do business?

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  Dream, Men, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

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  Organization, Desire, Innovative

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Leadership, Motivation, Different

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• To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Wings

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• America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.

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  Beautiful, Hard Work, Helping Others

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2007). “America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again”, p.8, Crown Business

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