Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.

I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.

A small step in a good direction.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

"Leadership" is a big topic today. We know that the world - nations and communities in addition to companies - needs more and better leaders. So I wanted to explore how leaders make a difference, how they can shift a negative cycle, turn around a losing organization, propel a team to victory when conditions aren't perfect. I saw that what leaders do is build confidence in advance of victory. Then the confidence they produce makes the hope of success turn into the reality of success, because people behave differently when they are surrounded by a culture of confidence.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

I have one goal with all my decision: to do whatever is needed to win today's game. I'm loyal to my players, and I stick with people because consistency builds confidence. But if I feel I have to make a change in order to win, I'll do it. I don't ask players to like my decisions, only to accept that I'm doing my job with one thing in mind - winning.

To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.