Leadership in

Technology Driven World

Ramon Thomas

www.netucation.co.za

My own journey with Mxit started in April 2006. I was visiting my mother and little sister on my annual pilgrimage to my hometown, Uitenhage. If you never heard of Uitenhage, it's where they manufacture Vws and I don't drive one.

Anyway during the week I was there I observed how my sister was spending practically all her time with her cellphone. She ate with it, she studied with it, she slept with it. When she went to bed at night she would take her phone with her, politely say goodnight, switch off her bedroom light and continue chatting under the dovet covers. This kind of behavior caused her to loose a lot of sleep and so she was always tired the next morning.

The second thing she did was to have her cellphone next to her when studying. So that every 5 minutes or so she would glance over, check it, or send a message. It turns out there is a flaw in multitaksing in this way. In 2001 CNN reported on research by Ruebenstein and Meyer that shows you loose between 20% and 40% of your potential productivity when you switch between complex tasks. The result for my sister was her marks dropped from June to September and again from September the Matric final exams. On 27 December she called me crying because she had failed one subject on HG. She's since received provisional exemption and is doing her 1st year BA.

Research:http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/05/multitasking.study/

Leadership

What is Leadership?

Clem Sunter calls for Inspirational Leaders

South African Elections 2009

2010 FIFA Worldcup

Who is Ramon Thomas

Completed B.Sc 1995 > Masters 2009

Internet Service Providers (ISP) 1997-1999

Deloitte 1999

National Bank of Abu Dhabi, 2000

ABSA FNB 2001-2003

NETucation, January 2004

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/PPTMooresLawai.jpg

Technology Singularityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

http://technologysingularity.com

Technology Growth

Cellphones 33 million

MXit 8.6 million

Computers 7 million

Internet 5 million

Facebook 850,000

Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008)http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008/

South African Internet, Mobile stats:http://www.worldwideworx.com

Technology - Conflict - Resolution

3 Components of Technology Conflict:

1. Complexity > Clarity (Paradox of Choice, etc)2. Confusion > Confidence (Leadership, Wisdom, etc)3. Conflict > Collaboration (Web 2.0, Open Source, etc)

Who ARE my Role Models?

Joseph Slingers

John Taylor Gatto

Colman McCarthy

Steve Jobs

Dr John Demartini

Maria Montessori

Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Einstein

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau

Thank You

Contact: Ramon Thomas

Tel. 041 9922-899

www.netucation.co.za

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