Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

We must change to master change.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Competence is the enemy of change!

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.