Conquering digital overload : leadership strategies that build engaging work cultures /

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Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11542603
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Other authors / contributors:Thomson, Peter, 1946 July 20- editor.
Johnson, Mike, editor.
Devlin, J. Michael, editor.
ISBN:9783319637990
3319637991
3319637983
9783319637983
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 7, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This book examines the impact of the digital deluge on employees and organizations and sets out the leadership actions needed to create a corporate culture fit for the digital age. In the digital world executives are presented with exponentially more information than their predecessors were a generation ago - and yet we're not exponentially more productive. Why? Because we're using twenty-first century technology with a twentieth century mindset. Excessive working hours, email overload and invasion of private life are all symptoms of a working culture that has used technology to simply amplify old management processes rather than enable and refine newer, more productive ones. Instead of liberating us, technology has created a digital overload, accentuating the problems of presenteeism, unreasonable deadlines and management demands. Organizations need to stop using technology to turn up the volume and start using it to change the channel. Written by a unique team of experts, this edited collection covers leadership, corporate culture, technology, wellness and workplace design. It argues that digital overload is a problem of corporate culture and a failure of leadership. As such it takes leadership to fix it. Leaders who have the courage to explore alternative ways of working with technology, the enlightenment to give employees more freedom and control over their own lives, and the humility to live and demonstrate the new culture personally. Those who do this have the power to transform their organizations so they can ride the digital wave rather than be swamped by it."--
Other form:Print version: Thomson, Peter. Conquering Digital Overload : Leadership strategies that build engaging work cultures. Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, z. Hd. Alexander Grossmann, ©2017 9783319637983
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-63799-0