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Take Me to Your Leader


By SD Times News Team
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June 1, 2001 —  (Page 1 of 3)
Throughout history, it has been the great men and women of vision who have shown us the way to betterment of our lives. Whether through mechanical or scientific advances, human rights or health care, societies have moved forward based on the strength of conviction of their leaders. They've been able not only to come up with an executable plan for making these ideas come to life, but also to get the public at large to buy into their vision. On top of that, they have had to convince workers that the vision is a sound one and create corporate cultures in which innovation and excitement can thrive.

So it was in the early years of what we call "high tech," when the promise of computers doing our shopping for us, helping our kids do their homework, and letting us communicate with people in remote corners of the world was an easy sell. The hard part was making it work. Now, we all have come to accept the pervasiveness of computers, just as our parents and grandparents took to telephones and television. We accept the notions of a World Wide Web and e-commerce. In business, we have placed many of our mission-critical data and processes in the trust of hardware and software vendors. In other words, the high-tech world is maturing. We believe in it.

Yet it is that very maturity that poses a huge challenge to the industry. The visionaries were all about growth-accept my idea, whether it's "The Future is Unlimited" or "The Network Is the Enterprise"-at a time when the high-tech world was relatively small. But now the industry has suffered a downturn, the first since so many businesses laid the foundation for computing underneath their operations. And now, it becomes critical for the captains of our industry to keep driving forward in a climate in which holding steady without slipping back appears to be a greater imperative. Shareholders, employees and economists all are wondering the same thing: Is this generation of leaders up to the task of repositioning their companies in this economic climate?



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