Systemic Leadership

Welcome to our blog on Systemic Leadership.

This community is for discussion on how leadership can impact the development, deployment, employment, and success of disruptive technology projects. Different leadership traits thave different impacts on disruptive technology projects. Our work focuses on building theories of interaction between quantifiable leadership traits and projects through case studies, quantitative studies of families of projects, and current event anecdotes.

What are some examples? The leader who is more worried about the correct cover on a TPS report than in your feedback on the project to use Web 2.0 technologies to make your products more available to new users - that leader has a mismatched leadership style. Another leader who is more concerned with developing your understanding and engagement in Web 2.0 may be a better match.

In some of our prior work, we have exposed some of these mismatches - some to United Stated Department of Defense weapon acquisitions (see the Nov 2008 IEEE Spectrum article asking a leadership question about how to acquire weapons here) and some to more benign (and more commonly known) technologies, such as MP3 music sharing.