Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Vision without execution is delusion.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Execution is everything.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.