In his new book, Leading in the Digital World: How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration and Inclusiveness, MIT leadership expert, Amit S. Mukherjee identifies seven principles that together help to define the new context for work, organization and leadership.
The seven principles offer a valuable template for corporate leaders everywhere seeking to understand the new leadership imperatives of the digital age and why the new era “calls for a new kind of leader – one who emphasizes creativity, collaboration and inclusivity.”
Today, discovering and serving unpredicted, unmet needs creates great customer value. A group that can draw on a multitude of lived experiences is more likely to uncover those than a cloistered, self-aggrandizing one.
The digital world requires executives to have a true collaboration instinct because, typically, no group possesses all the intellectual property necessary to accomplish creative, mission-critical tasks.
Amit Mukherjee’s seven principles offer a new set of insights into the shaping of emerging digital strategy and leadership. The message for leaders: Recognize that in the digital world you must primarily be the connector of people and ideas, not their approver or decider
