Leading the Virtual Workforce
How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st Century
Reeks: Microsoft Executive Leadership Series
Karen Sobel Lojeski
- LEADING
- THE
- VIRTUAL
- WORKFORCEWorld
- markets
- are
- unsteady,
- unemployment
- is
- on
- the
- rise,
- housing
- foreclosures
- are
- up,
- asset
- values
- are
- down,
- and
- the
- political
- landscape
- is
- shifting.
- Under
- such
- tumultuous
- conditions,
- people
- often
- look
- to
- leaders
- to
- soothe
- battered
- nerves.
- But
- in
- today's
- rough
- and
- tumble
- environment,
- there
- are
- reportedly
- few
- leaders
- the
- average
- person
- relies
- upon.Over
- 80
- percent
- of
- Americans
- believe
- that
- we
- are
- in
- the
- midst
- of
- a
- major
- leadership
- crisis.
- And
- over
- 75
- percent
- of
- executives
- from
- around
- the
- world
- are
- seriously
- concerned
- about
- whether
- businesses
- can
- develop
- good
- leaders
- for
- the
- future.
- And
- yet
- not
- one
- leadership
- book
- squarely
- addresses
- the
- issue
- of
- the
- changed
- workforce,
- the
- virtual
- workforce,
- and
- why
- old
- leadership
- models
- just
- don't
- work-until
- now.Leading
- the
- Virtual
- Workforce
- builds
- off
- the
- ground-breaking
- concept
- of
- Virtual
- Distance
- introduced
- in
- Sobel
- Lojeski's
- seminal
- first
- book,
- Uniting
- the
- Virtual
- Workforce.
- And
- in
- never-before-published
- interviews,
- leaders
- from
- IBM,
- Merck,
- Western
- Union,
- Alcatel-Lucent,
- HP,
- AT&T,
- and
- more
- share
- detailed
- case
- studies
- about
- what's
- different
- about
- leadership
- today
- and
- how
- to
- become
- a
- great
- leader
- in
- the
- Digital
- Age.
- Leading
- the
- Virtual
- Workforce
- covers:The
- virtual
- workforce
- is
- a
- relatively
- new
- phenomenon.
- The
- Virtual
- Distance
- Model
- provides
- the
- quantitative
- data
- and
- predictive
- power
- needed
- to
- understand
- how
- new
- behaviors,
- born
- out
- of
- the
- Digital
- Age,
- impact
- performance,
- innovation,
- and
- other
- critical
- success
- factors.
- And
- now
- the
- time
- has
- come
- to
- reshape
- leadership
- models
- to
- best
- serve
- worldwide
- organizations
- in
- the
- twenty-first
- century.
- Leading
- the
- Virtual
- Workforce
- does
- just
- that-paving
- the
- way
- for
- future
- leaders
- to
- create
- unmatched
- competitive
- advantage
- and
- performance
- improvements
- in
- the
- growing
- world
- of
- virtual work.
