E-Leadership: Tackling Complex Challenges

Authors

Mary Lynn Pulley, Center for Creative Leadership
Valerie Sessa, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2001

Journal / Book Title

Industrial and Commercial Training

Abstract

In exploring the impact of digital technology on leadership, we identify e-leadership as a complex challenge that is characterized by five key paradoxes: swift and mindful; individual and community; top-down and grass-roots; details and big picture; and flexible and steady. For people to function effectively in this changing environment, a broader definition of leadership is needed – one where people in organizations make sense together of the challenges facing them and where they participate in leadership at every level. This requires a training environment where individual skills of perspective-taking, network and coalition building, and story telling are developed along with team-based skills of using dialogue, managing networks, and protecting voices from the fringe.

DOI

10.1108/00197850110405379

MSU Digital Commons Citation

Pulley, Mary Lynn and Sessa, Valerie, "E-Leadership: Tackling Complex Challenges" (2001). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 206.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/206