Chapter 12: Becoming a Relevant Leader via Self-Appropriation

Today there is a paradoxical phenomenon: a strong sense of individuality, but at the same time, a high risk of fragmentation. On the one hand, the world shrunk and has become a global village (McLuhan, 1964), where information flows through the world saturating it. Today, everyone anywhere can see everything (Barevičiūtè, 2010). But at the same time, this world has never been deeply fragmented. All realities appear as disassembled pieces of a mosaic that individuals no longer know how to reassemble themselves. Today there is great fragmentation of time, space, values, and sensitivity. Life is connected “with other parts of the world through the media” (Martens et al., 2010, p. 576). Faced with all this, it is appropriate to promote dialogue from a perspective that addresses the fragmentation of personal life, attention, and time.