Open Leadership, Charlene Li
Open Leadership, Charlene Li
1 Rating(s)
List: $39.98 | Sale: $27.98
Club: $19.98

Open Leadership
How Social Technology Can transform the Way You Lead

Author: Charlene Li

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/14/2010


Synopsis

An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control

"Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness-leaders do not know how to be open and be in control. This must-have resource will help the modern leader understand how to lead in the new open world-where blogging, twittering, facebooking, and digging are becoming the norm. the author lays out the steps that leaders must take to transform their organizations and themselves into being "open" -and exactly what that will mean.

• Shows how to use social media to become an open organization
• Offers basic advice for leaders who are adapting to the new era of openness in the marketplace
• The author Charlene Li is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies

In easy-to-understand language, this audio book will help leaders orient themselves to social networking and other technological advances.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy

I added this as a required reading in a graduate Technology and Society class. In some ways, it was more about the 40-year-old "flat management" theories and models of leadership than the technology, per se, but did give many good examples of how both employers and employees using social media is ch......more

Goodreads review by Keith

It is a good book, valuable in the right situation, but gave it three stars because my own interest is more about the vision behind the technology. I really liked Groundswell which she wrote with Josh Bernoff. Open Leadership follows on by talking about the qualities that a leader would need to have......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

I recently finished reading Open Leadership by Charlene Li. I "stumbled" upon this book on a reading list for the University of Washington's Masters of Communication in Digital Technology program. I didn't know anything about the book, but the subtitle: "How Social Technology can Transform the Way Y......more