QUOTATION 75
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER AND SOPHOCLES ON HOW TO LOSE POWER (TOP TEN ENTRY)
Use this to remind you how easy it is to lose power because of your own actions.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b. 1943), Professor of Business at Harvard Business School, is perhaps best known for her work on change management. Change invariably means altering what is currently in existence, and to do that you need power. For, as she has said:
Power is the ability to get things done.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The great Greek playwright Sophocles provides a counterpoint to the above quotation with his statement that a leader should:
Never command what you cannot enforce.
Sophocles
The connection between these two quotations is explored below.
WHAT TO DO
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