Leading the Virtual Workforce How Great

This book is about the rise of the ambassadorial leader and the need for related leadership skills in the digital and virtual age. It includes a treatment of leadership that has not been done before; using the virtual distance model as a launch point for a new way of looking at leadership. The book covers not only the behaviors that leaders need to understand that can lead to increased virtual distance but also the organizational structural changes and resource shifts that have led to the need to re-think leadership for the virtual age. Then, using the foundation of virtual distance and related contextual issues to describe ambassadorial leadership, it discusses the elements of an ambassadorial leader, includes case studies of leaders that exhibit ambassadorial leader qualities, and provides a full self-assessment with tools and techniques to how to become a better leader in the virtual world

Karen Sobel Lojeski, PhD, is a Professor at Stony Brook University in the Department of Technology and Society, author, and founder of Virtual Distance International (VDI), an advisory firm specializing in virtual teams, leadership, innovation and learning in the new millennium. Prior to launching VDI and joining Stony Brook, Karen spent eighteen years in corporate America. She held leadership positions at Chase Manhattan Bank N.A., Mercer Consulting Group, and Stratus Computer, Inc. She was Chief Operating Officer for Prolifics, a JYACC company, and Vice President of North America for Xansa. She is a popular speaker on Virtual Distance and other unintended consequences of technology in the wired workplace, school systems, families, and society as a whole.

Microsoft Executive Leadership Series: Series Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
About the Interviewees	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxxiii
A Whole New World	p. 1
A Brief History of Leadership	p. 17
Creating Context	p. 33
Cultivating Communities	p. 49
Co-Activating New Leaders	p. 61
Techno-Dexterity	p. 77
The Virtual Distance Leadership Model	p. 93
The Future of Leadership As We Know it	p. 113
A Different View of Leadership Altogether	p. 123
The Virtual Distance Model	p. 141
Index	p. 151
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Leading the Virtual Workforce How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st Century

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