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Virtual Leadership and its Discontents
HEADLINE: thinking around leadership has made it harder for leaders to lead.
In short, writers have advised leaders to adopt the virtues of ordinary people. The academic world has mostly defined leadership down to influencing. Thus, anyone can be a leader, and leadership takes place in all levels of an organization..
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Title: Virtual Leadership and its Discontents - Charles Spinosa
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Keywords: leadership, virtual, Covid-19, moral, authority, mood
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Date produced: May 18th 2020
COVID-19 and the response of working virtually has made leadership even harder in three ways. First, with the increasing numbers of virtual meetings and clogged schedules, leaders are called on to be increasingly reactive. Second, in virtual meetings where people are easily distracted, listen to hear only what they expect to hear, and can secretly and easily ignore the video talking head, leaders are called on to perform at new heights of dramatic articulateness. Third, the casualness of yesterday is gone. To exert their moral authority virtually, leaders have to establish that necks are on the line and that something must be done in the meeting, and they need to do that in a mood that makes others want to join in the distress and hard decision-making. These are knotty problems. We will provide our three first-aid remedies.
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