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Epilogue: Retrospective and Prospective Reflections

Epilogue: Retrospective and Prospective Reflections
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Author(s): Peter A. C. Smith (The Leadership Alliance Inc., Canada)and Tom Cockburn (The Leadership Alliance Inc., Canada)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 9
Source title: Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies on Leadership in Global Business
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Peter A.C. Smith (The Leadership Alliance Inc., Canada)and Tom Cockburn (Center for Dynamic Leadership Models in Global Business, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6134-9.ch015

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Abstract

In this chapter, the editors present a brief summary commentary and reflective overview of the emergent themes, issues, and problematic areas the chapter authors have drawn to readers' attention in this book, and the editors tentatively indicate some potential or possible future directions for research and development of global business. They recognize that there are rapidly changing social mores and culture is a fluid but deep river running through diverse channels in the Lifeworlds and Workworlds of leaders today. They point to the perceived gap in leadership in reference to the uptake and understanding of these digital technologies and suggest that the implications include new ways of thinking as well as new competences for changing ways of working in the networked world of business. Crucially, the editors also reiterate that these are deeply human endeavors, and as such, the complexity of the technology does not negate or overwhelm the interactive dynamic complexity of human relations between leaders and others who inhabit and who view these conjoined worlds through many cultural windows.

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