Bootstrap Leadership

24That Thing Called the Internet

Leverage Technology

OK, WE CAN’T AVOID this conversation any longer. Let’s cut to the chase: I’m going to take a wild stab here and guess that you’re under-leveraging the greatest learning tool of our lifetime. Maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s a little thing I like to call the Internet. You probably even know how to use it—you Google or Bing what you what to know and, like magic, the answer appears. The great thing about the Internet is that it’s like a twenty-four-hour a day ATM for information; you can find anything, anytime, just about anywhere. But are you leveraging it fully as a leadership development tool? Are you using the Web to proactively grow as a leader? Are you strategically using the Internet to help ...