Title: Leadership and Technology: Innovation and Excellence in the Information Renaissance
1Leadership and TechnologyInnovation and
Excellence in the Information Renaissance
- Tony Piazza
- Excellence in Leadership
- February 6, 2006
2Tonights Agenda
- Your Facilitator Tony Piazza
- Basis of education
- Leadership
- Technology The Diffusion of Innovation
- Leaders and Change
- Lessons Learned
3Your Facilitator Tony Piazza
- Professional
- Support Consultant Ontario Systems LLC.
- Education
- B.A. Telecommunications BSU, 2004
- -Successfully completed EIL program
- M.S. Information and Communication Sciences
BSU, 2005 - -CICS Graduate Assistant facilitated last
years Leadership and Technology Workshop
4Basis of Education YOU as the educated elite
- Knowledge
- Skills
- AAC
- Attitude
- Awareness
- Consciousness
- ACTIVITY Get some paper handy!
5What is Leadership?
- John Kotter, Harvard Business School
- "A Force for Change How leadership differs from
Management"
- Consistency/Order vs. Vision/Change
- White Water Consulting, LLC http//www.whitewate
rconsultingllc.com/manage_lead.html
6What is Leadership?
- Tom Peters Thriving on Chaos
Master Paradox Develop an Inspiring Vision Manage
by example Practice Visible Management Pay
Attention! Defer to the Front Line Delegate Pursu
e Horizontal Management by Bashing
Bureaucracy Evaluate Everyone on His or Her Love
of Change Create a Sense of Urgency
7Technology The Diffusion of Innovation
- Everett Rogers Diffusion of Innovation
- Etymology of Innovation (from Latin)
- In In
- Novos New
8Technology is a Measure of Change
- Leadership Lessons from Star Trek
- Change as exemplified in Star Trek VI The
Undiscovered Country
9My Field Information-Communication Technology
(ICT)
- Communication is the Channel
- Information is the Message
- Technology is
10Leaders and Change
- Leaders make change happen!
- Dont seek 100 adoption a pipe dream!
- Mark Twain on change
- Habit is habit and is not to be thrown
- out the window, but coaxed down
- the stair
11Technology is a not a magic panacea!
- Panacea - definition from wn panacea n
hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
once sought by the alchemists syn nostrum,
cure-all - Leaders (YOU) care about innovation!
12Innovation!
- Leaders are upfront and early adapters
- Static vs. dynamic (Management vs. Leadership)
- Anyone can manage, you are leaders!
13Technology is a tool tools are tools
- When all you have is a hammer, all problems tend
to be nails - What are the ICT tools for leaders?
- "In high tech, it is as if we are moving slowly
on a ship, with new technologies looming, taking
shape, through a fog of unknowingness." from
Harvard Business Review, July-Aug.,1996
"Increasing Returns and the New World of
Business" by W. Brian Arthur - Have the heart of the explorer -- Jay E.
Gillette
14Another Activity!
- Another sheet of paper!?!
- Mark an X on where you fit in the curve
- Digital Photography
- Digital Video Cameras
- Portable MP3
- Blogs
- Podcasting
- Vodcasting
- RSS
- VoIP (Skype, Vonage, etc)
15 Leadership in technologyIs it a skill,
attitude or knowledge?
16The Challenge
- View technology as change leadership as
inclination to change - Questions/comments/feedback
Prepared for Excellence in Leadership by Tony
Piazza, 2006. Based on ideas, used with
permission, by Jay E. Gillette et al, 2005.