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eadership is about how you “show up.”  In other words, it’s how we act and behave in everyday situations that define our leadership persona.

how do we “show up” as leaders in a world where work is increasingly done on a mobile phone or tablet, or using a video chat, web conference or Telepresence?

The need for working in teams that span timezone and geography has risen: sales teams that need to share global leads and meet shared targets, operational teams that need to synchronise processes, airlines that need to manage workforce schedules. Technology such as video conferencing, messaging, email, somehow still seems to be one step behind our growing need for staying connected both from a practical sense but also emotionally.

Net Smart offers up a set of five literacies Rheingold sees as important: attention, participation, collaboration, “crap detection,” and network smarts.

We often divide our attention online, but at any given moment make “micro decisions” about what we’re going to do — write emails for work, watch a YouTube video, get lost in Twitter. Rheingold says we have to connect our attention to our intention and be more aware of how what we’re actively doing relates (or often doesn’t) to what we need.