Overview
- Learn from case studies that look at specific and common situations that arise in a team and how you can handle them
- Study how you can create opportunities for your people to grow
- Understand how you can align individual identities of your team members to the larger identity of the organization
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About this book
Digital technology is rapidly challenging the way we do business, interact with our communities, and learn about the world. Due to this, leading change in your digital organization now comes with unprecedented tools and platforms to make your teams the most effective they can be. Leadership in a Time of Continuous Technological Change has arrived at this pivotal moment and is your roadmap for this exciting, evolving journey.
Author Bar Schwartz introduces a holistic framework for leaders to take the reins in the digital Wild West. Achieving your team’s goals in this new environment will require high creativity, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a diversity of perspectives to solve problems that have never before been tackled. Roles and responsibilities have morphed, and what made you successful in the past may no longer apply.
Leadership in a Time of Continuous Technological Change is an unmatched resource fit for our new decade. Through analyzing detailed case studies, you will see how understanding your identity paves the way to achieving emancipation, capability, and autonomy. Ultimately, you will be empowered to lead with clarity. Your team has everything they need to excel. Discover how alignment and clarity can support you in launching your team to new heights.
What You Will Learn
- Examine case studies of different situations that can arise within a team and go through lists of takeaway questions that leaders can start asking to gain quick wins
- Adopt an agile mindset while taking into consideration the existing culture in the organization
- Communicate and align on expectations and goals with your team in a time of organizational change
Who This Book Is For
Emerging leaders who are dealing with change or leading change and seek to increase the level of alignment and clarity for their people and themselves
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bar Schwartz is an Organizational Excellence and Agile Leadership consultant and coach. Currently, she heads the engineering team at medneo, where she supports the leadership in simplifying ways of working, building digital product development capabilities and enabling further company growth. Furthermore, she works together with AgileLAB to deliver professional, hands-on Agile training.
Bar started her career as a software engineer, and has over the years worked in leadership roles where she led tech, product, people and transformations in diverse organizational structures, such as startups, corporations, and consultancies.
With her work, she aims to enable people to create successful change in their work and organizations so that together we can create more meaning, more value, a better future. Her focus is agile and technology dominant environments as those evolve faster than we, humans, can often adapt to.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leadership in a Time of Continuous Technological Change
Book Subtitle: Align, Strengthen, and Mobilize Your Team
Authors: Bar Schwartz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6300-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Apress Access Books, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Bar Schwartz 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6299-3Published: 27 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6300-6Published: 26 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 115
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business and Management, general, Engineering/Technology Education, IT in Business, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary