Crossing the Digital Faultline (Second Edition)

Book excerpt: KNOW THE NEW RULES ON THE DIGITAL FAULTLINE AND SUCCEED WITH A NEW APPROACH TO DIGITAL LEADERSHIP For three decades, changes powered by digitalization have swept across industries, creating seismic upheavals. These Digital Faultline forces are now upending long-standing business paradigms, success models, and entire ecosystems. But despite enormous investments, fewer than 8 percent of companies worldwide have managed to cross this faultline and thrive in the new paradigm. Combining pre-and post-COVID data from 5,000+ companies and more than three decades of leadership experience in the military, and as the CEO of a technology services firm, Sri systematically deconstructs these transformational forces on the faultline. Using simple, nontechnical language, Sri explains the rules that govern success on the faultline and secrets that power the technology industry's unstoppable growth and encroachment of other industries. Isolating leadership as the single most important factor for success, Manchala presents a new leadership persona for the digital age--the Methodical Innovator--and an invaluable 120-day playbook for readers to make an equally seismic transition into the mindset and approach required to succeed.