American - Businesswoman | March 15, 1943 -
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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Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
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Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
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The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
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To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
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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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It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.
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Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.
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I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
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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.
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The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
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Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
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