Has your CEO become a victim of technology irrelevance?
This past Sunday night, as I sit engrossed in the latest episode of Celebrity Apprentice, my attention was broken by a very familiar far off stare that I’ve become all too familiar — In this case, the blank gaze belonged to the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.
For those of you who watched, you witnessed something that happens in executive offices across this country every day – executive leaders that have become technically irrelevant. Blagojevich’s situation isn’t much different than most – he has been in a position of leadership for an extended period of time, and has relied on administrative staff for so long, that the basics of operating a computer and navigating the Internet have simply passed him by.
It saddens me to say this, but I have witnessed on numerous occasions executive leaders who have placed an acquisition for a computer that will sit on their desk, never to be turned on, and is simply on display so no to be found out.
The technology-based needs and expectations of your customers, members and constituency are far too great for your executive leadership to be technically illiterate. It seems every decision has either a technology or web implication these days – do you really want the guy who can’t turn on a computer to be the final decision maker? The time has come that executive leaders possess the same core understanding of technology and use of the Internet that they require of their staff.
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