Session Summary

Session Number:171
Session ID:S38
Session Title:Change or Else! : How the Change Imperative is Reshaping Business Strategy, Organization Process, Career Opportunities and Life Itself
Short Title:Kanter & Shapiro on Change
Session Type:Theme Session
Hotel:Hyatt West
Floor:LL2
Room:Regency Ball C(N)
Time:Tuesday, August 10, 1999 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Sponsors

AA  (Peter Smith Ring)pring@popmail.lmu.edu 310-338-7411 

General People

Organizer Kanter, Rosabeth Moss Harvard Business School rkanter@hbs.edu 617-495-6053 
Participant Shapiro, Robert  Monsanto    

Submissions

Abstract

Many forces -- globalizing market, intensified competition, borderless contagion effects, "third way" market oriented center-left politics and the new frontier of the Wild Wild Web -- are creating and environment that may best be characterized as "all Change, All the Time." Some say that nothing is really different, and that lessons from past periods of technological change can be applied in today's environment and in tomorrow's as well. But new strategies, new forms of organizations, new roles and new individual coping techniques appear to be emerging that reinvent not only organizations but also the nature of occupations and the division of labor in society. These sea changes in developmental journey that will be occurring at micro, macro and meso levels are explored, and Professor Kanter speculates on their potential impacts on the management professions.