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Leadership in Action: E-Leadership in the Networked Economy
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Leadership in Action: E-Leadership in the Networked Economy

by Mary Lynn Pulley, John McCarthy, Sylvester Taylor
August 2000
7 pages
23m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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Leadership by Network

The Web is the tool that allows for connectivity, which occurs through the relationships that form between people, whether they are employees, customers, suppliers, partners, or competitors. In a Web-centric environment, teams form and re-form continuously. This fluid connectivity radically redefines leadership, so that the locus of leadership shifts from individuals to the network of relationships.

The focus of e-leadership is collective tasks and perspectives that move an organization in a particular direction.

Thus the human element of the changing landscape emerges as one of the most important factors in e-leadership. Grasping the technology itself is only a starting point; organizations that apply the tools of technology ...

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ISBN: 9781604914580