Why Business Leaders Should Solve Problems Beyond Their Companies

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School, believes the world demands a new kind of business leader. She says so-called “advanced leaders” work inside and outside their companies to tackle big issues such as climate change, public health, and social inequality. She gives real-life examples and explains how business leaders can harness their experience, networks, innovative approaches, and the power of their organizations to solve challenging problems. Kanter is the author of the book "Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Small Innovation at a Time."

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0:00.0	Kurt Nick is here from Ideacast. I want to tell you about the Big Take
0:05.1	podcast from Bloomberg News. Each weekday they bring you one important story
0:10.0	from their global newsroom like how AI will upend your life and why China's
0:15.4	targeting the US dollar. Check out the big take from Bloomberg wherever you listen. Welcome to the HBRIDIA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nick Ifch. There are hard business problems in the world,
0:51.3	operating global supply chains, scaling fast and managing
0:54.6	complexity, and then there are just plain big problems in the world, poverty, climate
0:59.6	change, partisan divides, social injustice, violence, drug abuse, you name it.
1:04.0	Today's guest says truly innovative leaders, what she calls advanced leaders,
1:09.0	work on both, solving problems at their organization and beyond it.
1:14.0	Who are these advanced leaders?
1:16.0	For one, she points to a former grocery store executive.
1:19.0	Frustrated by the amount of nutritious food his company was throwing into dumpsters, he opened a restaurant
1:24.8	and market in a low-income neighborhood. Or the lawyer duo who created an online platform
1:30.6	to match skilled refugees with talent-hungry companies.
1:34.0	Advanced leader, she says, are people who see a need and then leverage their
1:38.0	experience and organizations to fill the gap.
1:41.0	Our guest is Rosabeth Moss Cantor. She is a professor at Harvard. the book Think Outside the Building, How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Small Innovation at a Time.
1:57.0	Rosebeth, thanks for being here.
1:58.0	My pleasure. Thank you. I was just reviewing the intro to the book where your first two words are irritation and
2:14.2	impatience and you call your book a manual for moving leadership to a whole new
2:19.2	level which is simple but also audacious maybe why does there need to be a call to action like this?
2:26.6	We have such big problems in the world.
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