Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

She married consultant Berry Stein in 1972. Her dissertation was on 19th-century utopian communes. Kanter's first husband Stuart A.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15 1943 in Cleveland Ohio) is a tenured professor in business at Harvard Business School where Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship.