The New Executive: Interconnected Yet Isolated and Uninformed – Leadership Challenges in the Digital Pandemic Epoch

Abstract

This analysis interprets a shift in executive thinking amidst the increasing electronic communication, information abundance, and cyber interconnections of the global digital economy and pandemic. The shift concerns the paradox of a potentially intensifying decline in effective and appropriate managerial action and ethical awareness alongside escalating electronic input from stakeholders worldwide. As leaders of globally impactful companies or countries confront the dilemma of increased information and interconnection from various sources, in tandem with an increased insularity from the daily challenges of consumer experiences, difficulties ensue from leadership disconnection from individual stakeholders, organizational objectives, and global health, safety, and wellness imperatives. The analysis highlights an often increasingly narrow focus in management thinking and priorities in an age of multiple crises.