Courage in the C-Suite

What you don’t do can hurt you. Missed opportunities lead to later regrets. Nokia could have innovated its way to dominance in smartphones. The SEC could have acted on early whistle-blower tips about Bernard Madoff’s scam. Yahoo could have sold to Microsoft. But they didn’t. Doing nothing seems easy. It’s often an invisible mistake—a sin […]

by

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

by

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

From the Magazine (December 2011)

What you don’t do can hurt you. Missed opportunities lead to later regrets. Nokia could have innovated its way to dominance in smartphones. The SEC could have acted on early whistle-blower tips about Bernard Madoff’s scam. Yahoo could have sold to Microsoft. But they didn’t.

A version of this article appeared in the December 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the founding chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, and a former chief editor of Harvard Business Review. She is the author of Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (Public Affairs, 2020).
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Courage in the C-Suite

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