“Think Outside the Building” says Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The following is a conversation between Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor at Harvard Business School and Author of Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving.

My next guest believes that the leadership paradigm of the future is the ability to "think outside the building," to overcome establishment paralysis and produce significant innovation for a better world. She is Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business at Harvard Business School and the Author of Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time.

Key Points from This Episode

• Rosabeth's POV on some of the world's biggest issues and how it is progressing [01:01]
• The importance of thinking beyond conventional assumptions and closed networks [03:13]
• Success requires breaking out [04:22]
• The inspiration behind the Advanced Leadership Initiative [05:18]
• The power of vision [07:29]
• Rethinking the nature of buildings [10:15]
• What keeps us from imaginative thinking [10:58]
• The best way to attack a castle [13:26]
• Radical change requires establishing ideas, conservative moves [14:20]
• Don't lose sight of the big vision [15:06]
• The other secret of radical change [16:49]
• Ray Jetson's big idea - Metamorphosis [18:42]
• Doug Rauch's  Daily Table [22:19] 
• Torsten Thiele Global Ocean Trust [26:13]
• Kanter's Law - Everything can look like a failure in the middle [27:32]
• The story of the two entrepreneurs who brought solar lighting to West Africa [28:46]
• Changing the world one smart innovation at a time [31:50]