Quotes from Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

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.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

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

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.

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

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

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

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

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

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

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Power is the ability to get things done.