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The Most Important Quality A Digital Leader Requires
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Digital Leaders
It is about understanding how specific technologies interact with people, and setting aspirations, creating culture and building capability.
Successful digital leaders challenge obsolete organizational ways and give teams the space to be disruptive and creative. Successful digital leaders also work in partnership with business and tech entrepreneurs to define and solve the most important issues.
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Digital Transformation
Digital technology needs to enhance your processes and activities, and also what you are able to offer to your clients.
Companies now need digital innovators to lead them or risk perishing under the growing wave of digital disruptions. They also need to communicate and share with customers and employees, to identify opportunities and individuals who will help promote change.
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Adaptability
Sudden changes in the industry can disrupt the status quo, potentially derailing the success of your organization. In these situations a leader must remain flexible and adaptable, ready to make the quick decisions that can keep the company on track with minimal negative impact.
Risk-Taking
Putting speed and innovation ahead of tried-and-tested business practices often makes leaders cautious. However, in a fast-changing world, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
For a start-up, the risks can be even greater but innovation is impossible without risk. And if you can’t take risks, you may not be cut out to be a digital leader.
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Skills Needed In Digital Leaders
- Work together, complement each other, and function as a team.
- Able to operate on and enable environments that are more dynamic, team-centric, and connected.
- Lead and build teams and partner with the broader ecosystems, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Lead a workforce that includes contractors, the contingent workforce, and crowd talent.
- Understand how different business functions, industries, and technologies come together to form solutions.
- Comfortable and competent with risk-taking.
Demographics And Leadership Destiny
Millennials expect to be developed via opportunities, mentoring, and stretch assignments. However that is hard to come by in top-heavy companies.
Most millennials think their roles provide little development while most companies report they have excellent or adequate programs for Millennials.