Leadership and its Presence and Effect in the Future
 

Zuboff addresses her point about leadership in the final paragraph of the essay.  She asks many provocative questions.  These questions concern the future, technology and the role of leadership, which until the problems are faced and dealt with, will have no answers, just speculations.

Questions asked:

“Will there be leaders who are able to recognize the historical moment and the choices it presents?”

“Will they find ways to create the organizational conditions in which new visions, new concepts and a new language of workplace relations can emerge?”

“Will they be able to create organizational innovations that can exploit the unique capacities of the new technology and thus mobilize their organization's productive potential to meet the heightened rigors of global competition?”

“Will there be leaders who understand the crucial role that human beings from each organizational stratum can play in adding value to the production of goods and services?”

Zuboff can not offer any real answers to these questions nor is there much of an explanation, but she does give one speculation.  She says that if the answers to these questions are no, then we, as a society, will have to suffer the consequences.  She suggests that we will be stuck in a more advanced world with old ways of accomplishing things and the potential benefit from technology will be lost.