E-leadership: tackling complex challenges

Authors: Pulley, Mary Lynn; Sessa, Valerie I.

Source: Industrial and Commercial Training, Volume 33, Number 6, 2001 , pp. 225-230(6)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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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.

Keywords: Internet; Leadership; Team building; Training

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00197850110405379

Publication date: 2001-11-01