Rosabeth Moss Kanter Leadership Quotations

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

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

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.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

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

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.