ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvards Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies the leadership paradigm of the future: the ability to "think outside the building" to overcome establishment paralysis and produce significant innovation for a better world.Kanter provides extraordinary accounts of the successes and near-stumbles of purpose-driven men and women from diverse backgrounds united in their conviction that positive change is possible.A former Trader Joes executive, for example, navigated across business, government, and community sectors to deal with poor nutrition in inner cities while reducing food waste. A concerned European banker used the power of persuasion, not position, to find novel financing for improving the health of the oceans. A Washington couple enticed global partners to join an Uber-like platform to match skilled refugees with talent-hungry companies. A visionary journalist-turned-entrepreneur closed social divides by giving fifty million social media users access to free local education and culture.When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.

Este libro recopila los artículos que Rosabeth Moss Kanter, una de las más famosas especialistas en gestión empresarial del mundo, escribió para la Harvard Business Review. De hecho, la totalidad del texto cubre los temas fundamentales de la materia: la estrategia, la innovacion, los clientes, las tendencias globales, el liderazgo y el cambio, las alianzas estrategicas, los sistemas de compensacion y la responsabilidad compartida. Y el mensaje es siempre el mismo, a saber: la importancia de tratar a las personas como activos de la empresa, asi como de proporcionarles las condiciones necesarias que les permitan aportar ideas entendidas como motor de cambio: el mantenimiento de la competitividad en un mundo en constante evolucion, la puesta en practica de las mejores estrategias para el funcionamiento de cualquier tipo de negocio, la eleccion de los socios adecuados para que funcionen las alianzas, la utilizacion de directrices motivadoras con los empleados y la resolucion de todas las cuestiones presentes como inversion para las innovaciones futuras. Siempre en la vanguardia de la empresa, Kanter concibe el libro como una llamada a la accion. Sus ensayos reflejan a la perfeccion la labor de un autentico lider empresarial y sirven para recordarnos por que no hay que perder de vista el hecho de que los valores y las personas son la verdadera base del exito en los negocios. Rosabeth Moss Kanter es profesora de Administracion de Empresas en la Harvard Business School desde 1986 y fue editora de la Harvard Business Review desde 1989 a 1992. Tambien se ha encargado de la renovacion y puesta al dia de varios gobiernos, empresas privadas y organizaciones de todo el mundo. Es autora de otros doce libros.

E-Volve brinda a los líderes el marco que necesitan para triunfar en el emergente mercado electrónico. Es una herramienta indispensable para cualquier empresa interesada en contarse en las precursoras dentro de este nuevo y fascinante sector. Rosabeth Moss Kanter fue nombrada por The Times como una de las cincuenta mujeres mas poderosas del mundo.

Otra vez en busca de nuevos horizontes, Rosabeth Moss Kanter -autora de numerosos bestsellers y gurú del mundo empresarial- proporciona las técnicas y estrategias imprescindibles para triunfar en el arriesgado mercado actual. Combinando argumentos teoricos enormemente convicentes con ejemplos extraidos de la vida real, la autora demuestra que las oportunidades se mueven hoy en el ambito global y que, precisamente por ello, el tamaño de una compañia -o de una ciudad, o de una region- no debe ser lo mas importante a la hora de planificar presupuestos y conseguir beneficios. En consecuencia, el presente libro no solo le ayudara a comprender el modo en que la globalizacion puede afectar a las empresas y las comunidades, sino tambien a concretar las nuevas y variadas inversiones que estas deben realizar para triunfar. La conclusion, en fin, es que hay que abordar y superar esa resistencia al cambio global que hoy parece dominar los distintos ambitos de la vida empresarial y, de paso, elaborar una estrategia que garantice prosperidad y cree seguridad laboral en todas nuestras ciudades y regiones.

La confianza es un valor fundamental que pocas veces nosdetenemos a analizar. La acción de confiar es el factor clave queles permite a las personas normales y corrientes alcanzar altosniveles de rendimiento a traves de rutinas que promueven sutalento.Las rachas de fracasos se producen cuando las personas pierdenla confianza en sus lideres, mientras que las rachas de exitos sedeben en su mayoria al trabajo de personas que confian en suspropias habilidades.A partir de mas de trescientas entrevistas con lideres del mundode los negocios, los deportes y la politica, Rosabeth Moss Kanterexplica el papel que la confianza juega en el exito.

In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyzes how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.

Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless waysred or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. What happened to America as the land of freedom and openness? In America the Principled, renowned Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter tackles the hardest questions our nation faces, and challenges us to recommit ourselves to pursuing our nations noblest goals: equality and opportunity.As our open minds, open markets, and open bordersour nations highest idealsare besieged by ideologues and zealots, Dr. Kanter shows us how to recapture the American Dream. Artfully mixing practical ideas with compassionate guidance, she reminds us that the stakes have never been higher: Our economic vitality and democratic ideals are both at risk. In order to compete in the global market, we must invest in people and ideas, reward hard work, value dialogue and debate, and listen to dissenting voices. We must curtail our desire for worldwide empire, build bridges through citizen diplomacy, and pursue happiness instead of hegemony. Dr. Kanter proposes six vital items on the agenda for restoring American strengths: Widening the net of prosperity by creating opportunities for people of all social and economic classes to participate in the science-based white coat economy. We cant afford to have large segments of peopleand areas of our countryexisting outside the foundations of our future, innovation-seeking society. Supporting real family values through fair and flexible workplaces that reduce stress and close gender gaps, enabling people to earn a living, be productive, and have the time and energy for the other side of life Ridding the private sector of imperial excess by instilling a values-based capitalism of businesses that are well run, make lots of money, and do lots of good Reinventing government and stop denigrating it so that when the next Katrina strikes, we have the right people in place with the motivation, capability, and resources to deal with it Doing something about the Ugly American by earning back the respect that we have lost in the last six years through individual grass-roots engagement with people in other countries Moving from me to we through national service programs that tap both young people as well as aging baby boomers to create a community ethos that unites people behind common purposesEmpowering and surprisingly optimistic, America the Principled urges us to work together for a bright future well be proud to share, having earned the respect of the world once moreand shows us how to do it.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism.Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set of companies using their power not only for profits and sustainable growth but also social good. If you think business corporations are doomed to be lumbering, bloated, and corrupt, think again. Based on an extraordinary three-year investigation, interviewing more than 350 key people at major companies around the world, Rosabeth Moss Kanter provides encouraging and astounding evidence that this assumption is completely outdated. The businesses that are agile, keeping ahead of the curve in terms of market changes and customer needs, are the businesses that are also progressive, socially responsible human communities.Take IBM. When the tsunami and earthquake struck Asia, IBM didn t just cut a check for relief funds and call it a day. The company used its technological expertise and skilled people to create what government and relief agencies could not: information systems to effectively track relief supplies and reunite families. While IBM did this with no commercial motive, its employees desire to serve people suffering during these crises stimulated innovations that later benefited the company. Or Proctor & Gamble. Despite a decade-long commitment to research and development of a water purification product, commercial prospects were unpromising. But because it was so consistent with P&Gs statement of purpose, people within the company persevered. And when the tsunami struck, it was then able to deliver roughly a billion glasses of drinking water for the victims, earning plaudits from aid partners, the media, governments, and crucially, P&G employees. SuperCorp captures the zeitgeist of the emerging twenty-first-century business. For example: The strong potential synergy between financial performance and attention to community and social needs The unique competitive advantage from embracing the values and expectations of a new generation of professionals The growth opportunities that result from stressing values and supressing executive egos when seeking partners and integrating acquisitionsSuperCorp is a remarkable look at the business of the future and the management skills required to get there. IBM, Banco Real, P&G, Cemex, Omron, and other companies reported on now move with the rapidity and creativity of much smaller enterprises. These companies are not perfect, but when people are empowered and values drive decisions, everything can come together in magical Rubiks Cube moments of deep satisfaction. Kanters compelling and inspiring stories show that people are more inclined to be creative when their company values innovation that helps the world.