Question: How do leaders operate in a flat, virtual, and dispersed

organization?

Col (ret) Doug Anderson

quilldogdea@gmail.com

Feb 2013

Leadership is so much more effective when leaders value of their employees and work hard to help them use their talents and abilities as part of a healthy, well-functioning

team. How are your leadership skills in a virtual world? Building virtual presence share knowledge, ideas, your own community of practice?

Are you as a leader?

What is your style? Have

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philosophy

Ever wonder why certain people seem to just inspire others to follow them to their destination, or why we change? certain

habits and follow others.

Have you gotten into the mind of your supervisor to see as they see it? Helping them connect the dots in a complex and interconnected? Letting go

to grow with respect to professional development

Are you appealing to and adapting informing, inspiring, and influencing the future workforce and leaders?

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It is important to share and care and succeed. It is also important to rapidly convert data to info to knowledge

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There's got to be a better way to thrive and succeed in a knowledge intense and flat world!

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Seeing The World From Various Perspectives Will Enhance Health, Experience of Care, and Reduced Cost Per Capita Quicker, Easier, and

Faster

You'd be surprised at how many professional work groups out there are working to share knowledge, learn from others, benchmark others, and generate good ideas and

solutions at their respective levels of the organization

Online collaboration and knowledge sharing is the key to continuous quality improvement and taking our health system to the next level

As a result of globalization, technology, work-life balance, and outsourcing, virtual teams are becoming more common. Leaders of virtual teams rarely have the chance to connect with their direct-reports face-to-face. Therefore, in addition to the typical

challenges a leader faces when his/her team is all in one location, virtual leaders must communicate, build trust, and instill accountability via technological means

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Answer:

Openness, trust, and transparency, continued focus on continuous process improvement,

AND a willingness jump into online communication and knowledge sharing for positive affect… … Generals Roadman and

Green taught us this the value of ambiguity and chaos theory, system thinking, quantum leap learning, CPI, and sharing knowledge …

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