Rosabeth Moss Kanter quote: "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."

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols...
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I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come...
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Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
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The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a...
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Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain p...
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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 bec...
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Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymor...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the exp...
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Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even ...
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People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't cor...
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To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
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Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent ...
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Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with lon...
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Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from anot...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

A great idea is not enough.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements,...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communica...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've ne...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the fina...
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The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be ...
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I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences,
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

[Over the past five years, executive coaching has mushroomed from a sideline on the motivational and...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Boards and bosses may say they want change, but in fact they don't want too much disruption, controv...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never ...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage o...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replica...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

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

I've been looking at companies that are one a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that th...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily chan...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Power is the ability to get things done.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTOR

What happened to the Lincoln?
FRED KANTER

This thing has many more miles in the air than on the ground.
FRED KANTER

I thought we were going to be approved. We're a legal adult entertainment business. I thought we cou...
FRED KANTER

We are going to pursue other potential sites in the area where the legislative authority would give ...
FRED KANTER

Anyone who works in these kinds of fields knows it's better to be trying than doing nothing.
LOIS KANTER

All the clinics at the law school have been pretty carefully targeted to be very specialized and int...
LOIS KANTER

They have to know they can ask for it if they want it or need it. People weren't being told about wh...
LOIS KANTER

I just think that the approach here - it's true throughout the whole university - is geared toward p...
LOIS KANTER

The question is can Tyson make the pork and beef work together with the poultry. Other companies hav...
JEFF KANTER

I think what both companies are doing is very healthy. It's all about noise and creating excitement ...
JEFF KANTER

For the Ben & Jerry's franchise, what they have now is new access to every corner of the world and t...
JEFF KANTER

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like...
KATE MOSS

When they came into our place [Penndel Lanes], we knew we had to win three. And, our boys were up to...
AL MOSS

When teams come into Penndel, they never bowl up to their potential. We count on it.
AL MOSS

They taught us a very important varsity bowling lesson that day. They wiped the floor with us.
AL MOSS

We just had a bad day. It happens sometimes, in bowling.
AL MOSS

Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,...
MICHAEL MOSS

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the...
KATE MOSS

I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn...
KATE MOSS

Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the l...
KATE MOSS

I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be...
KATE MOSS

I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they we...
KATE MOSS

If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I ...
RANDY MOSS

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this...
KATE MOSS

We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to al...
MOSS CASS

It's a beautiful thing just to see all your student body out there; some 100,000 people out there sh...
ADRIAN MOSS

We've played every game from the 40s to the 90s. There's no style of play we haven't faced and we ha...
ADRIAN MOSS

Chris is a huge part of our offense. One person can't stop Chris. He's too big, strong and athletic....
ADRIAN MOSS

We're a team. The team takes up for each other. When one thing isn't going well, another steps up an...
ADRIAN MOSS

It's a competitive basketball game and everyone is out there playing hard. For a freshman to go at C...
ADRIAN MOSS

Kentucky is going to be a Kentucky team. Coach [Tubby] Smith always has those guys ready to play bas...
ADRIAN MOSS

It's kind of pick your poison now.
ADRIAN MOSS

They've always been confident guys with a swagger. But then they had an innocent swagger. Now they h...
ADRIAN MOSS

Glen Davis is a big dude. He's a tremendous athlete and goes to the boards hard. He does everything ...
ADRIAN MOSS

He used to destroy us (with) three-hour practices. We would spend hours killing each other before ga...
ADRIAN MOSS

I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I...
KATE MOSS

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ri...
KATE MOSS

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
RICHARD MOSS

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. ...
STIRLING MOSS

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. On being a high-profile social smoke...
KATE MOSS

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
STIRLING MOSS

A pampered menial drove me from the door.
THOMAS MOSS

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from af...
RANDY MOSS

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often ...
MICHAEL MOSS

There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to wo...
MICHAEL MOSS

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
KATE MOSS

The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique t...
MICHAEL MOSS

That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer word...
MICHAEL MOSS

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I thi...
KATE MOSS

No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
KATE MOSS

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Nao...
KATE MOSS

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It w...
KATE MOSS

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enoug...
MARISSA MOSS

Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not...
RANDY MOSS

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed u...
KATE MOSS

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
KATE MOSS

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened ...
ELISABETH MOSS

Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want ...
KATE MOSS

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calori...
MICHAEL MOSS

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plan...
KATE MOSS

You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not...
KATE MOSS

Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
KATE MOSS

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected ...
KATE MOSS

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
KATE MOSS

I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent ...
KATE MOSS

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm be...
KATE MOSS

I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's ...
KATE MOSS

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
RICHARD MOSS

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free...
KATE MOSS

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I ...
KATE MOSS

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
KATE MOSS

Mystery, like faith, defies human logic.
MAUREEN MOSS

Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if...
KATE MOSS

As far as we are aware this is the largest men's salon and retail shop anywhere in the South West. S...
BRIAN MOSS

This is just the first step in trying to reduce the vector that carries West Nile virus.
BRIAN MOSS

He let us know that he was doing a very important job. I am sure what he was doing was a job that he...
BRIAN MOSS

He looked after the young guys. He was like the second dad for everybody.
BRIAN MOSS

To me, it was rewarding to see people come together, not to raise obstacles, but to identify them an...
BRIAN MOSS

We're so far behind, in terms of what the market demands today, that this is something that needed t...
BRIAN MOSS

This is not a nuisance control program. It's targeting potential species that can carry West Nile vi...
BRIAN MOSS

They have been a tremendous asset.
BRIAN MOSS

The plan we're talking about today takes us to 2012 and is expected to cost $300 million.
BRIAN MOSS

Suddenly, you will stop, you and me and all of us. Your lungs will rest at last and the electric pul...
SARAH MOSS

Talking with our agent and everything, we're all pretty confident. We could play in the A-League if ...
BRANDON MOSS

It was probably because of the fact that we made it so far in the tournament. It gave coaches a chan...
BRANDON MOSS

I am looking forward to coming to Columbus and helping any way I can.
BRANDON MOSS

I don't know why he wouldn't have gotten picked up. Maybe it's a speed issue. But he scored close to...
BRANDON MOSS

There's definitely nothing to regret. We went out there every day and played the best that we could....
BRANDON MOSS

(Danny and I) started to develop a little bit of chemistry in there, and it's unfortunate that happe...
BRANDON MOSS

I guess it was making it as far as we did in the tournament. I don't know if I could say there was o...
BRANDON MOSS

Lance and I were talking, and it would have been an amazing end to our college careers and the begin...
BRANDON MOSS

I've made a lot of adjustments from last year -- I got into a long swing mode -- [but] it feels real...
BRANDON MOSS

We talk about things. I learn a lot from him about the outfield, because he's a good outfielder. He ...
BRANDON MOSS

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself ...
KATE MOSS

I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The m...
KATE MOSS

When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligate...
RANDY MOSS

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
KATE MOSS

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in ...
KATE MOSS

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I ...
KATE MOSS

Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
RANDY MOSS

I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address,
KATE MOSS

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,'...
KATE MOSS

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a...
KATE MOSS

I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; eve...
KATE MOSS

Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
KATE MOSS

There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I beli...
KATE MOSS

[SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA -- Randy Moss looked around the crowded locker room inside San Francisco's M...
RANDY MOSS

This gives us a lot of insights we wouldn't be able to make using static images.
CYNTHIA MOSS

We walked in and immediately knew that was it.
ASHLEIGH MOSS

In the coming months, as it reaches through the court system, we will present evidence that I am con...
ALLEN MOSS

I think if we'd been getting me the ball earlier, we'd probably have a Super Bowl ring now. ... Like...
RANDY MOSS

This really is intended as a way to find what occupations are growing in the county so educators can...
GARY MOSS

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.
KARY MOSS

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own...
MOSS HART

The allegations are untrue,
KATE MOSS

We know in both cases he entered through a window and in one case the window was unlocked.
DELRISH MOSS

When you're rich you don't write checks.
RANDY MOSS

We will be excellent on offense.
RANDY MOSS

The tough part of it is, Randy will never be a model citizen. But until this, he's been so good so f...
RANDY MOSS

I mean, how can a guy go out there and really let everything, like I've always said, I like to play,...
RANDY MOSS

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-...
MICHAEL MOSS

Keep working, man. It can be done. It's a euphoric feeling. It don't get no better.
ADRIAN MOSS

I'd like to thank you all for coming and showing all the support that you all have given me and my t...
ADRIAN MOSS

When it's someone's time, they have to step up. It was my time.
ADRIAN MOSS

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors a...
MICHAEL MOSS

My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Bas...
KATE MOSS

Broadly, soundings with investors indicate a continuing interest and appetite for new products.
ALLAN MOSS

The deal pipeline continues to be satisfactory overall, including investment banking and equity capi...
ALLAN MOSS

It is unlikely we will receive substantial performance fees this half.
ALLAN MOSS

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in...
KATE MOSS

There is no evidence or showing that these folks would be a flight risk in any way.
ALLEN MOSS

Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and t...
KATE MOSS

I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting char...
ELISABETH MOSS

We've got a lot of pipe in the ground on the railway and we're going to need more.
DEAN MOSS

Randy Moss hanging in effigy.
RANDY MOSS

They really don't know me, and I really don't know them. But one thing for sure that I try to leave ...
RANDY MOSS

Um, I think his approach, being an offensive-minded coach, is something that I can accept, I like. I...
RANDY MOSS

I want him. He's a great player and he makes our offense great.
RANDY MOSS

That's the best receiver in the game right now,'' Owens said.
RANDY MOSS

I don't think Randy takes many plays off.
RANDY MOSS

We just really didn't have it in us, ... I really don't know how we're going to react. Some teams go...
RANDY MOSS

I'm in love right now,
RANDY MOSS

[Asked by Gumbel about his comment that a $10,000 fine] ain't nothing, ... I don't really have an an...
RANDY MOSS

every blue moon or every once in a while I might.
RANDY MOSS

Just to see him come out here and work with us every day, have the patience with us every day, it's ...
RANDY MOSS

They had a nice scheme going. It was to be physical with me at the line, not let me get into my rout...
RANDY MOSS

Lets go now, this is our time. We are going to have fun now.
RANDY MOSS

There's no telling what you are going to see,
RANDY MOSS

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since I've been in the league,
RANDY MOSS

That was really me talking in the past.
RANDY MOSS

To be honest, I really don't know how the Vikings will do. I would really like to see how they handl...
RANDY MOSS

Both are outstanding players, but the guy that affects the defense more than anyone is Randy Moss. I...
RANDY MOSS

He knows Coach Turner's offense like the back of his hand. He knows the plays and the terminologies.
RANDY MOSS

I gave him a little lowdown on Oakland, the city, the team, the players. We just talked about a lot ...
RANDY MOSS

I'm sticking by my friend and I'll support him and his family as he gets help battling his problem.
RANDY MOSS

I thought we had very good intensity in the first half, but I don't think our intensity was nearly a...
RANDY MOSS

Oh, it's got nothing to do with Denver or sea level, whatever that is.
RANDY MOSS

The first drive was good, ... One thing that we wanted to do was get out there and get ourselves rea...
RANDY MOSS

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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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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