siliconindia | | July 20198LEADING IN A WORLD THAT JUST CHANGEDBy Kurtis Jetsel, Director, Lockheed Martinechnology disrupts; it always has and always will. Tell me something I don't know, you say. Stay with me for the next few minutes as we dis-cuss how the inability of leaders to adapt to that disruption is costing our companies millions of dollars in lost revenue. You know where you personally reside in the `technol-ogy adoption life cycle'. Perhaps you are an `innovator' on most things and if you are a leader, I'm willing to risk a guess that you are a `laggard'. Not me, you respond. "I personally have the latest technology and I ensure my company is equipped with the best technology money can buy". I have no doubt that is the case; where I want to challenge your thinking however, in the area leadership.I want to suggest that as leaders, we are `laggards' when it comes to adapting a new paradigm required for leading in a world that just changed, a world where the rate of change is nearing exponential proportions. Buck-minster Fuller postulated that up until the early 1900's the collective world's knowledge doubled about every 100 years. By the end of WWII, it was doubling every 25 years, and some believe we are approaching a point soon where the worlds knowledge will double every 12 hours (why worry about `knowledge transfer' when what Holding an experience of 35 years in Lockheed Martin, Kurtis has served as Director of Facilities and ESH for MFC Business Area, prior to current role as Director of Program Management with oversight of multiple production contractsTIN MY OPINIONKurtis Jetsel
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