Comments on: Leadership in the age of immediacy by Marten Mickos https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/leadership-in-the-age-of-immediacy-by-marten-mickos/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: Alessandro Daliana https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/leadership-in-the-age-of-immediacy-by-marten-mickos/#comment-52628 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:44:52 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=896#comment-52628 Leaders identify and share with their communities a view of the world in which their existence is less uncertain, which brings them together to collaborate and make it a reality.

Certainly, the interconnected and decentralized world we have created primarily in the West/Center and which use the tools based on telecommunication are a reality because this way of organizing our work is less uncertain. However, it cannot be denied that this organization has also created centers of power leading to a more inequitable distribution of the benefits.

All you need do is visit you neighborhood stores to see how much IT these businesses use; very little. The owners cannot afford to spend their time tweeting and posting and re-posting on social networks to engage with and convert customers because this would be inefficient. They cannot afford to even hire someone to engage in these activities because it costs too much. They don’t want to use web based services – although they some times feel obliged to at the client’s request – because giving up such a huge percentage of their sales is penalizing for them. And so and so forth….

Likewise, virtual companies like those described in the article are idealistic without a mechanism by which uncertainty of payment and of delivery can be satisfied for all the economic actors involved. I have not met one person or business who will work such a high degree of uncertainty be it on the client or vendor side of the equation.

What Marten describes is entirely in the realm of large established organizations who seek productivity gains by shedding non-essential processes to smaller economic actors. The degree to which this can be done is very much a consequence of the laws in the country of operation.

Don’t get me wrong. I subscribe entirely to Marten’s point of view. However, I do so with a certain number of caveats and limitations.

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By: Jed M. Bellen https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/leadership-in-the-age-of-immediacy-by-marten-mickos/#comment-52524 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:38:14 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=896#comment-52524 In reply to Mikael.

I personally prefer the word “leadership” even “old fashioned” as you said.

There are cultures which became successful even without considering personal or social sensitivities.

But then as a leader, you have to manage these social sensitivities to a certain extent beneficial to all. Bear in mind that you cannot give in to all social sensitivities. And this supports the imperative for leadership.

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By: Jaya Uppalapati https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/leadership-in-the-age-of-immediacy-by-marten-mickos/#comment-52521 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:25:19 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=896#comment-52521 Thankful : What an educative note on how to marriage with an unknown digital transformation that is already around us. It does not include us in the transformation and its normal. one must be prepared and ready to face it, Its called disruption.

A proposal title will be :
Disrupt self before you get disrupted
How:
Hire leadership to deal with complex unknown world.
Assumption:
Leaders know how to go strategise the difficult journey.

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By: Mikael https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/leadership-in-the-age-of-immediacy-by-marten-mickos/#comment-52519 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:39:01 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=896#comment-52519 Your sentence “We all have egos that are self-centric. But our brains are eager to collaborate. The more we digitize the world, the better we can connect our world with our brains, and connect our brains with each other” is the key statement here. And one comment: the so called change is going on every second and increasing dramatically in speed so leadership would be the old fashioned word. I prefer social sensitive guidance!

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