Conquering Digital Overload Leadership strategies that build engagin
This book examines the impact of the digital deluge on employees and organization and sets out the leadership actions needed to create a corporate culture fit for the digital age.In the digital world executives are presented with exponentially more inform
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Conquering Digital Overload
Peter Thomson · Mike Johnson J. Michael Devlin Editors
Conquering Digital Overload Leadership Strategies that Build Engaging Work Cultures
A FutureWork Forum publication
Editors Peter Thomson FutureWork Forum Henley-on-Thames, UK
J. Michael Devlin FutureWork Forum Brussels, Belgium
Mike Johnson FutureWork Forum Lymington, Hampshire, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-63798-3 ISBN 978-3-319-63799-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63799-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017951549 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design by Samantha Johnson Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
In memory of Richard Smith, whose untimely death during the writing of this book was a great loss to the FutureWork Forum
Preface
It was the American actor W.C. Fields who allegedly coined the phrase, ‘never work with children or animals’, something that has remained a sobering, all too often, truism to this day. And, of course, it depends on your gullibility, or let’s just say the attraction of the new fad of fake news, as whether or not you believed whether he actually said that (he was rumoured, like the film-maker Sam Goldwyn, to employ an army of gag writers). Whatever the truth, there is another truism we may want to take on board, depending on how logical, gripping, educational, entertaining or informative that you find the next hundred or so pages, that you should never, ever agree to co-write anything. I’ve been a solo writer for my whole life (authored 50+ books, thousands of articles studies and research papers, without resorting to a co-writer). So wh
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