Bring Out the Best in Every Employee: How to Engage Your Whole Team by Making Every Leadership Moment Count

CHAPTER 2Personal Impact: Losing the Ability to Connect

This new era we’ve seen ushered in with the twenty-first century has taken quite a toll on every organization around the globe. Given all the change we’ve seen in the last 30 years, it stands to reason that we’ll see the same thing again within only 6 or 8 more years; the cycle will accelerate. In Chapter 1 we discuss what we call no-normal events and dynamics and their impact on all of us collectively, but what about their impact on each of us individually? What about how they affect the lives of every one of us and how we live and interact? Let’s take a look.

We Are All Connected

Technology has played the single largest role in this no-normal era. Indeed, it has transformed our very lives. ...