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 aunique 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.
