Six keys to leading positive change: Rosabeth Moss Kanter at TEDxBeaconStreet

From the power of presence to the power of voice, leadership expert and Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses the process of makin…

1. Show up.  Decide your presence makes a difference.

1. Barak Obama, gave speech at DNC, rest is history.

2. Speak up.  Use the power of voice. 

2. Own the airspace too.
3. “I want to make sure I have something to say.”  Just do it. Just talk.
4. Shape the agenda, frame the issues, help them think in a different way.
5. The person most influential, names the problem, gives an idea for action.
6. Suggest to other people actions they could take.  Entire neighborhood is mobilized to learn.  Encourage many separate people, through his voice.
7. Ellen Goodman, former syndicated columnist, time to have end of life conversations.  Conversation Project, media partners with ABC.  Talk about preferences for end of life.

3. Look up.  Look at a higher principle, bigger vision.

8. Without vision and values, leadership is hollow.
9. Could be spiritual values, but not necessarily.
10. Know what you stand for and elevate people’s eyes.
11. We need leaders to help us get above that, gain a sense of hope, and realize what’s fundamental in our values.
12. Companies that stand for vision and values, create something for the world.
13. We should start every meeting to remind ourselves of our mission, lifts the spirits like nothing else.

4. Team up.  Everything goes better with partners.

14. Anything worth doing is difficult to do alone.
15. Need a sense of partnership from the beginning.
16. Tech startups, which ones came to dominate the industry.  Google not AltaVista, Facebook, not MySpace.  More and better partners faster.
17. Hillary Clinton, interested in solving problems with her position, she sees development as diplomacy.

5. Never give up.

18. Kanters Law- Everything can look like a failure in the middle.  Everything we start has something that looks like a roadblock in the middle.  Middles are difficult.
19. Flexibly redesign often.  Many times not the success you’ve imagined.
20. Hallmark of leaders, they don’t give up.
21. Find your inner Mandela.  The strength to persist between, nay-sayers, critics, then when what you do begins working.

6. Lift others up.  Share success, credit, recognition, give back, create environment to do it again. 

22. Build support rather than lose support.
23. Make sure other people feel elevated by what you do.