WORLD CLASS

1
WORLD CLASS

• Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• 1995
• Simon Schuster

2
The author claims that most of the CONTRADICTIONS
Americans face center around connections to the
world

• Old expectations are violated so frequently, that
  new ones cant form

3
Americas Economic Role

• Formerly always initiators-----
• to now being also recipients

4
Economies now spill over political jurisdictions

• How does this translate to education?

5
The Cosmopolitians
6
They are rich in 3 intangible assets

• Concepts
• Competence
• Connections

7
The Locals
8
Opportunity can get confined to community when
there is lack of control over

• Resources
• Knowledge

9
Cosmopolitians

• Are NOT antilocal
• But RATHER supralocal

10
PROBLEM!!!!!!

• While economies are globalizing.
• Politics in many regions are localizing

11
Job Security depends on

• Meeting world standards
• Joining world networks

12
How can global forces be corralled for the
benefit of communities rather than causing their
destruction?(Kanter, 1995, p. 29)
13
Organizations can link individuals to more global
networks in 3 ways

• As Thinkers
• As Makers
• As Traders

14
THINKERS

• Specialize in innovative competence..the
  knowledge industries

15
MAKERS

• Specialize in executional competence

16
TRADERS

• Specialize in connections

17
World class regions demonstrate excellence in at
least one of these three domains.(Kanter, 1995,
p. 31)
18
For a place to be world class, it must feature a
concentration of skills that are hard to uncouple
from local assets (like colleges Boston or
Latin American experts and Miami).(Kanter, 1995,
p. 32