Rosabeth Moss Kanter Libros

The collection showcases essential insights and innovative ideas from a renowned thinker, drawing on two decades of experience. These concepts, initially groundbreaking, are presented with even greater relevance for contemporary readers, highlighting their enduring significance in today's context.

Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s.

Throughout her extraordinary career, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter has always pushed the boundaries through her high-level field research, and her breakthrough ideas with practical applications for a broad audience. One of the world's bestselling business thinkers, her work on leadership and change management has influenced the most enlightened and successful executives and entrepreneurs.Supercorp, based on a three-year worldwide research program, provides the answer to a question crucial to both business and society more broadly: as a company grows, how can it avoid becoming a lumbering, corrupt giant? Companies such as IBM, Procter & Gamble, Mexican-based Cemex and Japanese-based Omron provide the models that businesses small and large can use to stay on track, outstrip the competition, and attract and motivate the new generation of talent. And, Professor Kanter provides the evidence of the powerful synergy between the financial success shareholders want and social conscience - it is only these 'vanguard companies' that are big but human, efficient but innovative, global but local, that will succeed in the future.

Confidence lies at the heart of civilization. Everything about an economy, a society, an organization or a team depends on it. Every investment and decision we make is based on whether we can trust ourselves, and others, to accomplish what has been promised. Confidence determines whether our steps are tiny and tentative or big and bold. Using company case studies of over 1000 companies, Rosabeth Moss Kanter identifies the patterns distinguishing the dynamics of failure and success in a variety of different arenas ranging from private organizations and businesses to high schools and governments.

A distinguished sociologist and consultant to many Fortune 500 companies provides in-depth case histories of consistently successful American concerns and analyzes the elements that contribute to a company's innovative energy and success

One of the world's leading business thinkers offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership which will help solve the world's complex, messy social and environmental problems.

Shows how small and medium-sized companies, local governments and city planners can benefit from globalization at the local level. The book explores why emerging companies have to be "born global" to keep their domestic business, and how apparent problems can be turned to advantage.

From Simon & Schuster, When Giants Learn To Dance is the definitive guide to corporate America's changing strategies for success.The definitive guide to today's new management strategies and techniques. Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows how the truly innovative companies are leading the way, and how "giants" are actually joining this "post-entrepreneurial revolution."

The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell, to describe their organizational structures, their corporate cultures, and their specific strategies.

This text outlines what it takes to succeed and thrive in the new economy. It provides a look at the human side of the digital era, with detailed cases of around 25 companies including: e-Bay, Drugstore.com, CNBC.com, and e-commerce venture at Williams-Sonoma and Cisco.

What is a learning organization? What are the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want to become a learning organization? Where does one start? Learning Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example. Lead authors include Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, London Business School's Professor Emeritus Charles Handy, and MlT's Fred Kofman and Peter Senge. The thirty-two essays in this comprehensive collection are presented in four main 1. Guiding Ideas 2. Theories/Methods/Processes 3. Infrastructure 4. Arenas of Practice

This book provides a comprehensive business strategy in dealing with the pressing challenges that face companies and careers today. It aims to become the definitive guide to business success in the 1990s. Other books by the author include Men and Women of the Corporation and The Change Masters.

Americans often seem divided along numerous lines—political, racial, economic, and gender. This raises the question: what happened to the ideals of freedom and openness? In this insightful work, a renowned Harvard Business School professor addresses pressing national issues and urges a recommitment to the core values of equality and opportunity. As our highest ideals face challenges from ideologues, the author offers a roadmap to reclaim the American Dream. Blending practical ideas with compassionate guidance, she emphasizes the urgency of protecting our economic vitality and democratic principles. Competing globally requires investment in people and ideas, rewarding hard work, and fostering dialogue. The author outlines six essential strategies for restoring American strengths: expanding prosperity by including all social classes in the innovation economy; promoting family values through fair workplaces; eliminating excess in capitalism for a values-driven approach; reinventing government for effective disaster response; improving America’s global image through grassroots engagement; and fostering a collective ethos through national service. Empowering and optimistic, this work inspires collaboration for a future we can all be proud of, emphasizing the importance of earning global respect once again.

E-Volve! - Der Titel mag einigen Lesern gegenwärtig eher als Drohung denn als Verheissung erscheinen. Viele Unternehmer und Anleger haben sich im IT-Taumel der vergangenen Jahre heftig die Finger verbrannt. Doch Rosabeth Moss Kanter bietet in ihrem Buch genau das, was die ersten gescheiterten Dotcoms vermissen liessen: Substanz. Mit ihrem Forschungsteam an der Harvard Business School befragte sie knapp 800 Unternehmen und Organisationen in aller Welt und führte an 24 von ihnen detaillierte Fallstudien durch. In einem unterhaltsamen Plauderton berichtet sie über deren erste Gehversuche im virtuellen Universum, analysiert Erfolge und Misserfolge und gibt dem Leser schliesslich einen detaillierten Einsatzplan für die erfolgreiche E-Commerzialisierung des eigenen Unternehmens an die Hand. getAbstract.com legt das Buch allen ans Herz, die aus der kurzen Geschichte der Dotcom-Revolution lernen möchten: Mitarbeitern von IT-Unternehmen, E-Commerce-Teamleitern und Firmengründern, die sich ihren Glauben an die Zukunft des Internets noch bewahrt haben

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