Leadership and Mindfulness in a Connected Age
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The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of living and leading in today's digital age of constant connectivity. It notes how technology has evolved rapidly over time and is now ubiquitous, allowing constant access through mobile devices. While this connectivity enables engagement, innovation and social change, it can also promote isolation, inequality and privacy issues if not approached mindfully. The document advocates developing strategies like focus, filtering and forgetting to consciously harness technology's benefits while maintaining awareness and balance in our lives. It raises questions about how to use technology wisely as leaders to improve communities in Vermont.
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Leadership and Mindfulness in a Connected Age
- 1. Mindfulness and Leadership in an Age of Connectivity Internet Map
- 2. My talk today* • History + future of technology • Opportunities and Challenges • Living & leading mindfully in the digital age *I’m Amanda Levinson, ThirdSpace Consulting
- 4. Digital •Have to be avail 24/7 •Always on •Unstoppable information •Instantfame (Harlem Shake) •Gamers= SO AWKWARD •Girlfriend is always texting me
- 12. Moore’s Law
- 13. Mass access to digital devices
- 16. Every Day… • 3.2 Billion Likes and Comments on FB •250 million Tweets •500 years of video watched on YouTube •40 million photos on Instagram
- 17. Current Stats • 67% of all adults WORLDWIDE now use social media • 65% of world’s top companies use Twitter • 90% of Marketers use Social Media channels
- 19. New Leadership Models Old Model • Centralized • Hierarchical • Linear • One-way communication • Perfect New Model • Distributed • Collaborative • Networked • Engaged • Prototype, engage in real-time learning and failure
- 22. The Generosity of the Crowds
- 27. Digital Inequality Reasons: o Age o Geography o Race o Socio-economic status o Education level Forms: o Skill o Access to equipment o Social support o Network o Purpose Barriers: o Cost o Comfort level o Digital literacy o relevance
- 30. Communication
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- 33. How are you feeling?
- 34. The Studies! Social Media Promotes: • Trust • Tolerance • Social support • Community • Political Engagement • Concern for others • Makes you feel happier! • Distrust • Filter bubble • Bullying • Isolation • Slacktivism • Narcisissm • Makes you feel worse!
- 35. The Hero of the Future = YOU
- 36. The Grand Challenge How do we live mindfully in the digital age, in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being and effective in our work, and that harness technology for the greatest benefit?
- 37. (mental space)
- 38. Strategies that allow us to be…. Conscious Creative Aware WE DECIDE THE LIMITS
- 40. The Future: Not IF, but HOW
- 41. Big Questions • How can we use technology in wisdom, rather than with haste? • How can we harness the best parts of technology to become effective leaders? • What are the particular opportunities and challenges we are seeing in our communities in Vermont?
Editor's Notes
- #18: +Cyberbullying
- #20: Losing mindfulness
- #26: Technology is a great enabler of connectivity and creativity. But it can also disrupt our relationships and our ability to get work done, or to access the ideas that are inside of us. If our minds aren’t focused, we wont communicate as well.
- #27: We need to adopt strategies that allow us to be conscious, creative and aware of technologies, where we decide the limitsIncreasingly, our success as leaders will be determined by how able we are to harness technology to be effective, For that, we need mental space, which is the foundation for engagement and creativity, McKinsey and Company suggests a simple but effective strategy to get out of information overload, and it involves focus (carve out chunks of time), filtering (delegating tasks and not reading every single email applied to you) and forgetting (gettting outside to clear your head)
- #28: What matters is not that these technologies exist, but how we use them.