... that his deepest fear wouldn’t come true. (4) We simply cannot know how many people allow secret fears to torment them or at least to keep them from being the fully productive person they might be. Rosabeth Moss Kanter wrote Men and Women of the Corporation. Kanter tells a revealing story of a fabric company that made complicated woven materials. Yarn breakage during production was a long‑standing problem, adding to the cost and representing a competitive disadvantage. A new executive, who believed in ...
... ? I’m reminded of what happened years ago when the Federal Center for Disease Control pitted in-house research teams against each other in a quest for an AIDS cure. They hoped competition would be a great motivating tool. According to Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her book, When Giants Learn to Dance, team members were highly educated professionals, mainly research scientists and physicians, yet disaster ensued. In their zeal to win, some teams sabotaged the work of others research was destroyed and experiments ...
... . As Warren Bennis points out in his book On Becoming a Leader (1989), leadership still remains the most studied and least understood topic in all the social sciences. In spite of all the recent studies on leadership by MacGregor Burns, Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Cary Cooper, Alistair Mant, et al., leadership is all too often still "like beauty, or love, we know it when we see it but cannot easily define or produce it on demand." Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason (Boston: Harvard Business School ...
