Leading the Digital Workforce : IT Leadership Peak Performance and Agility / Jeffrey W. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Jeffrey W., author.

Series:

Security, Audit and Leadership Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personnel management--Technological innovations.

Personnel management.

Management--Technological innovations.

Management.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1 Edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Future IT leaders won't be technology leaders, they'll be business leaders who understand technology. Leading the Digital Workforce takes a fresh look at technology leadership, exploring how to lead and manage in today's digital workplace where the pace of change is exponential. This book walks you through building personal resiliency and avoiding stress and burnout to creating a strategy, building a high-performance team and examining how technology will change the workforce of the future. Technology leadership requires a unique set of skills, which is why traditional leadership approaches don't always work. This book provides actionable advice on how to create a culture of innovation while driving successful change initiatives. Leading the Digital Workforce provides strategies for empowering people, optimizing processes and inspiring innovation. This book offers insights into managing change, leveraging technology and building strong relationships within your organization including how to understand and work with company culture. Finally, it shares strategies for using technology and innovation to create a competitive edge to unlock new opportunities. Leading the Digital Workforce is essential reading for IT leaders who want to develop their skills, stay ahead of the digital curve and lead their organizations into the future. No matter if you're a new IT leader, an aspiring one or a seasoned leader who's been at it for years, there's something in this book that will help you level up your game"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the author

PART I: Foundations

1. Playing the long game of leadership

The digital workforce

What makes technical work so challenging?

Should you just get an MBA?

Born or made: can you learn leadership?

There is no failure

The impact of poor leadership

The long-term perspective

Summary

References and further reading

2. The average IT leader is … average

The technology leadership crisis

What is leadership, anyway?

The management-leadership continuum

Are you sure you want to lead? Ten questions to ask

How to be an IT leader worth following

The path ahead

3. Master your mindset

Why your mindset matters

Establishing your leadership philosophy

Good followers: the other side of leadership

The smartest one in the room

Trust and integrity

Staying grounded

There are no soft skills

Leaders are readers

4. IT leadership peak performance

What is peak performance IT leadership?

Systems: the algorithm of success

Morning and evening routines

Managing emotions

Stress, burnout and the myth of work-life balance

Imposter syndrome: taming the inner critic

Distractions will make you mediocre

Cognitive load and decision fatigue

The path to peak performance doesn't end

PART II: Leadership in action

Living in a VUCA world

The OODA loop: The Rosetta Stone for leadership agility

5. Starting a new job: How to thrive

Before your first day at a new job

Your first week on the job

Your first 90 days matter, but not as much as you think.

Prioritize relationship building

Get to know your boss

Get to know your team

6. A crash course in strategic planning

Why strategic planning is important

How strategic planning is different from managing a project

Developing a strategy

Step 1: understand the problem or opportunity

Step 2: analyze the environment

Step 3: form the plan

Step 4: getting support for your plan

Step 5: execute, monitor, and measure

Culture eats strategy for breakfast

7. Building a high-performance team

Attracting great people: with or without a big budget

What is a high-performance team?

Creating psychological safety

The leader as coach

Managing conflict

Five secrets of high-performing teams

Quiet quitting and other headwinds

Leading through crisis

Succession planning: how and why to obsolete yourself as quickly as possible

8. Execution and getting things done

Why execution matters

Develop an execution mindset

The top reasons IT projects fail

Prioritize using the Eisenhower Matrix

Distractions and lesser goals

Leading when you're not in charge

Reporting progress and finishing what you started

9. Leading from anywhere: A guide to the hybrid office

Trust is the foundation of remote work

Communication

Set clear expectations

Making hybrid work … work

10. Giving back: Industry leadership and the next generation of leaders

Mentoring the next generation of talent

Industry initiatives and organizations

Roll your own leadership development program

Becoming a thought leader without making it all about you

Giving back through entrepreneurship.

Other ways to give back

11. Leading from the edge: The future of work

IT leadership and the future of work

Web 3.0: power to the people

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) replaces some jobs but creates others

Middle managers go extinct

5G and 6G brings high-speed internet everywhere

The skills-based economy eliminates the need for a college degree

The metaverse makes work even weirder

Creativity becomes the new differentiator

Become a technology futurist

Conclusion: Time is the ultimate disruptor

Appendix

Further reading for IT leaders

Journal prompts

Leadership superpowers

Breath awareness meditation

IT organizations

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781003314707

1003314708

9781000895100

1000895106

9781000895131

1000895130

OCLC:

1376195540