Super-Flexible Leadership: Aligning Knowledge Workers Through Peer-Peer Practices

Homa Bahrami () and Stuart Evans ()
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Homa Bahrami: University of California
Stuart Evans: Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley

Chapter 8 in Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises, 2010, pp 153-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract How do business leaders keep knowledge workers emotionally engaged and intellectually focused? How do they set clear mandates, yet create room for entrepreneurial initiatives? How do they guide geo-distributed teams and provide a sense of community? Silicon Valley is an entrepreneurial ecosystem built on knowledge-based assets. A critical challenge is how to recruit, engage, motivate, develop, guide, and retain knowledge workers. This task presents a dilemma: On the one hand, knowledge workers do not want to be micro-managed; on the other hand, they have to be guided, coached, directed, and ultimately “aligned”.

Keywords: Knowledge Worker; Effective Leader; Software Company; Effective Team; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02447-4_8

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