Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specialises in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organisations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research).

Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business School Blog

Find out the latest topics of discussion from Rosabeth Moss Kanter on her Harvard Business Publishing blog

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/kanter/

 

Harvard Business School

Find out about Rosabeth through her biography, research and her areas of interest on the Harvard Business School official site.

http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facEmId=rkanter@hbs.edu

ABOUT THE SEMINAR
Vanguard Leadership: New Models for Modern day Success and Sustainability.

This seminar will highlight lessons from Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s new book SuperCorp (due Sept 09) about finding your organisational super-powers by emulating the world’s best companies.

Specifically:

Digital Age imperatives: surviving recessions & emerging triumphant

• The challenges of uncertainty, complexity, diversity, transparency
• The rise of self-organising networks
• Turning organisations upside-down and inside-out
• Doing well by doing good: society at the centre
• Culture as the only sustainable competitive advantage

Purpose, values & principles: the starting point for smart strategy

• Defining a core purpose, and why it matters
• How taking end-to-end responsibility produces goodwill and
• high performance
• Beyond a “wink-wink” culture: embedding principles in daily
• decisions
• The new controls: using values and principles to stay on course

Innovation: finding powerful solutions to the problems that matter the most

• Seeing further by sensing society
• Customer and community problems as innovation triggers
• Open innovation: seizing ideas from anywhere
• The “values dividend”: speeding the 7 aspects of innovation

Collaboration: the power of positive partnering

• Why do-it-yourself no longer works: getting more done faster
• with partners
• How to get partners to give you their best (and attract the best
• acquisitions)
• The 3-bucket solution to collaboration and merger integration
• problems
• Leader empathy and ego suppression as business assets

Dynamic workplaces: attracting, motivating, and retaining the best talent

• Choosing when, where, and how to work
• Connectors and integrators: the fast track to the top
• Dealing with differences – the diversity challenge
• Creating “Rubik’s Cube” moments of high impact

Modern day leadership skills

• The power of empowerment (and why it’s the only thing that works)
• Building confidence: the work of leaders
• The 3 ME’s of leadership

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE EVENT?

• Leaders & Managers at all levels
• Departmental Executives
• Public Sector Managers
• Professional Officers
• Defence Personnel
• Human Resources Managers
• Clinicians
• Technicians
• Consultants
• You !

Vanguard Leadership: New Models for Modern day Success and Sustainability

This seminar will highlight lessons from Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s new book SuperCorp (due Sept 09) about finding your organisational super-powers by emulating the world’s best companies.

Program Timetable for: Perth, Melbourne, Sydney Full Day Event 09:00 - 09:30 Registration begins 09:30 - 11:00 Session One 11:00 - 11:30 Morning Tea 11:30 - 13:00 Session Two 13:00 - 14:15 Lunch 14:15 - 16:00 Session Three 16:00 Close

Program Timetable for :Canberra Half Day Event 08:30 - 09:00 Registration begins 09:00 - 10:30 Session One 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 - 12:30 Session Two 12:30 - Close

 

The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders
Organisational change has become a way of life as a result of three forces: globalisation, information technology and industry consolidation. In today's world, all organisations, from the Fortune 500 to the local non-profit agency, need greater reach. They need to be in more places, to be more aware of regional and cultural differences and to integrate into coherent strategies the work occurring in different markets and communities.

The first two forces for change - globalisation and technology - will inevitably grow. But it's not enough for organisations to simply "go international" or "get networked." In a global, high-tech world, organisations need to be more fluid, inclusive and responsive. They need to manage complex information flows, grasp new ideas quickly and spread those ideas throughout the enterprise.

What counts is not whether everybody uses e-mail but whether people quickly absorb the impact of information and respond to opportunity.

Change is created constantly and at many levels in an organisation. There is the occasional earthshaking event, often induced by outside forces; there are also the everyday actions of people engaged in their work. In change-adept organisations, people simply respond to customers and move on to the next project or opportunity. They do not necessarily change their assumptions about how the organisation operates, but they continuously learn and adapt, spread knowledge and share ideas.

Change-adept organisations share three key attributes, each associated with a particular role for leaders:

The imagination to innovate.
To encourage innovation, effective leaders help develop new concepts, models and applications of technology that set an organisation apart.

The professionalism to perform.
Leaders provide personal and organisational competence, supported by workforce training and development, to execute flawlessly and deliver value to ever-more-demanding customers.

The openness to collaborate.
Leaders make connections with partners who can extend the organisations reach, enhance its offerings or energise its practices.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter will expand these concepts further in this enthralling seminar, Vanguard Leadership: New Leadership Models for Modern day Success & Sustainability

“People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organisational goals. So it is crucial to recognise, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specialises in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organisations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research).