Luis, an executive with over 20 years of experience in various positions managersHe feels slower, heavier, … more insecure.
Luis, technophobe The declared value is lost when they press the accelerator.
Perhaps technophobic managers should act differently, with a triple exercise of prudence, humility, and adaptation to change.
This is the fictional story of Luis, an executive with over 20 years of experience in management positions, primarily in General Management and Operations Management, across various sectors and business areas. Until a few years ago, Luis had been performing his assigned responsibilities with competence. His solid business background and extensive experience allowed him to make sound strategic decisions, supported by accumulated intuition, despite their reluctance to use new technologies in their daily work.
But something is changing. It feels slower, heavier, … more insecureThe demands have increased, but the waiting time for decision-making has decreased.
His interlocutors are younger than him, and he notices they don't speak the same language. He's unable to keep up, and he struggles to make progress on tasks that require nonverbal communication, collaborative tasks, or even managing his own time. He notices that his interlocutors are making an effort to adapt to his technological level, and Luis, a self-proclaimed technophobe, gets lost when they press the accelerator..
This story exemplifies the situation of a large number of current managers.
It is still quite common to find managers who exhibit a tendency towards "technophobia" in their work. Today, a 21st-century manager, regardless of their area of responsibility, must perform their job with the intensive use of all kinds of technologies (especially ICT, cloud tools, social networks, personal productivity apps, collaborative tools, unified communications, etc.).
21st-century managers must shed their technophobic image because it is the only way to work effectively in the current context.
In networking sessions at business forums and events, you still hear colleagues proudly displaying their technophobic attitudes. To use a joke, God kills a kitten When someone says things like, "I don't need LinkedIn," "Twitter is for nerds," "Make an appointment with my secretary," "I'll check my schedule at the office and get back to you," "Drop...what?", "The cloud is for angels,"...
Perhaps those people should act differently, with a threefold exercise of prudence, humility, and adaptation to change:
Prudenceavoiding showing that great weakness in public.
Modesty, acknowledging its limitations with the security and strategic vision that accumulated experience provides.
Adaptation to change, acting with determination to comprehensively modernize their professional performance.
Thanks to the focus on one of Our values, technological innovation, the interim managers de EPUNTO They are accustomed to using the new technologies that are currently available to management work, regardless of their functional area, which allows them to constantly innovate as an improvement of efficiency and effectiveness in the performance of their activities.