Description: There is presently a view that accessible technologies offer an inclusive and humanistic expression of technology. They do. But that is not all. Accessible technologies offer more than this: they contain within them lessons on transformational leadership. Through examining six case studies the reader will begin to interpret these accessible technologies as expressions of leadership. The risk inherent in the current view is that to view accessible technologies only as examples of humanism, or the good, is to risk underselling them. In fact, accessible technologies (which are being created across international society) represent a powerful leadership approach to technology itself. Through their leadership, these accessible technologies demand and create new and original thinking by society. The reader will benefit from this Element by learning to identify transformational leadership within accessible technological creations and consequently gaining a capacity to apply this leadership to the very purposes of technology itself.
About Cambridge Elements in Leadership
Series Editor
Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna College
Susan E. Murphy, University of Edinburgh
Founding Editor
Georgia Sorenson, University of Cambridge
The Cambridge Elements in Leadership series features “cutting-edge” topics in leadership that are multi- and inter-disciplinary, and will have broad appeal for leadership courses in a variety of programs. In addition to the scholarly audience, Elements also appeals to professionals involved in leadership development and training. Cambridge Elements in Leadership is published by Cambridge University Press in partnership with the International Leadership Association (ILA) and the Møller Institute, Churchill College, at Cambridge.