Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely
This is a variation of the famous Lord Acton quotation: {292904}.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Writer & Management Expert, Men and Women of the Corporation, 1977
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
This is a variation of the famous Lord Acton quote {292904}.
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
Many social scientists believe that this is one of the reason for so much racism amongst the lower class whites. If blacks are “below” them, the poor whites have power and are not at the bottom of the sociological pyramid of society. To many this is better than being better off themselves but starring the bottom with the Negroes.
- Born: March 15, 1943
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Scholar, Management Consultant
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor of business at Harvard Business School. She is also director and chair of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative.
