5 Quotes & Sayings By Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the John L. Loeb Professor of Management at Harvard Business School, where she has taught since 1974. Her research focuses on the design of organizations that help people achieve their goals. She is particularly interested in how to develop motivation, particularly among women who are well-educated but have difficulty finding appropriate work Read more

She is also interested in how best to structure organizations so that they allow people to express their talents and to learn from each other. She teaches the course "Organization Design" at Harvard Business School, which she co-taught with her husband, Peter F. Drucker.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating...
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Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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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. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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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. Rosabeth Moss Kanter