Ch 5: Effective Leadership in Changing Technology Environments: An IT Perspective

From the Book: The Refractive Thinker®: Vol. IX: Effective Business Practices in Leadership and Emerging Technologies

Summary

This chapter includes information regarding collaborative leadership, systems thinking, information technology, organizational learning, and models that can be applied to further organizational leadership and drive revenues. The components of Senge’s (1990) model, personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking compare to leadership methods within changing technology environments. Leaders of a learning organization must encourage new ideas, for which a 10-step from Kinle and Sanders to becoming a learning organization is presented. Organizational change is unavoidable, and these concepts and tools will help transformational leaders become change agents in their organizations.