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  • Think Outside the Building

  • How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time
  • By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Narrated by: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Think Outside the Building

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard's 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 Joe's 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 50 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.

©2020 Rosabeth Moss Kanter (P)2020 PublicAffairs
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"Drawing on 50 detailed case studies and hundreds of interviews, Rosabeth Moss Kanter distills her experiences with Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative in this informative and fascinating volume. Both an 'inspiration and a guide to action,' this book challenges the reader with narratives describing extraordinary new approaches to old institutional and societal problems; Kanter has penned essential reading for twenty-first century leaders." (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University)

"Stimulating...Buoyed by strong writing and an encouraging tone, Kanter's thorough and thought-provoking guide will be a boon for veteran leaders who want to put their well-tested skills to new-and socially constructive-use." (Publishers Weekly)

"Striking...This realistic and hopeful manual shows how accomplished individuals can tackle problems whose victims often lack resources to take action." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

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good read

I enjoyed the book and definitely learned about next best steps, but it also felt like this book is geared for people with a lot of cash, or connections with not a lot of focus of anyone outside of the 1%.

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