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Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Change, Positive, Opportunity

Embrace change as an opportunity to learn, to improve, to make a difference in others' lives as well as in your own. Have the courage to challenge the status quo. Remember that preparation and ambition in combination with opportunity equals success. And have fun!

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Fun, Ambition, Opportunity
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... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Opportunity, People, Giving
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.10, Basic Books

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.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Business, Power, Opportunity
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Dream, Opportunity, Attachment
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Opportunity, Men, Careers
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.304, Basic Books

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Opportunity, America, Trials

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Opportunity, Self, Groups
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.159, Basic Books

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.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Opportunity, Roots, Evil

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