As a leader of technology today, I find it increasingly difficult to self-identify with any primary traditional leadership style. It’s not necessarily important to me to compartmentalize how I do my job, but in a day where little is more mindless yet oddly compelling than finding out everything from my perfect political candidate to which Disney character I resemble closest in mind, body and spirit via Facebook quiz, I feel drawn to slapping at least a cursory overarching leadership label on myself and using it ad nauseam like a buzzword du jour.
Not really, but seriously...
Current leadership styles embody traits required of today’s CIO in a too-obvious way. Technology is and will likely forever be thoughtfully managing fast-paced and exponentially increasing change, therefore you can’t just be charismatic, innovative, pace-setting, transformational and/or servant-leading.
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