Dr. Joseph Aluya
Irrespective of the interdisciplinary, epistemological, pedagogical or etymological differences in the interpretation of leadership, technological situational happenstances (TSH) is cognitively and effectively use as a trajectory toward transformation of various leadership styles. Commonalities and differences exist in Bass' (1985, 1996, 1997) and Burns' (1978, 2002, 2003, 2006) leadership theories. Some scholars harbor crotchetiness to Bass' and Burns' theories (Keeley, 1995; Mckendall, 1993; Snyder, 1987; White & Wooten, 1986). Other scholars constructively remain neutral to Bass' and Burns' theories (Dmitry, 2007; Yukl, 2006). Without leaders deploying TSH in organizations, information will be distorted and degraded from reaching strategic and tactical planners.
TSH is use to analyze, synthesize and triangulate the United States real estate historical trends from 1880s to present. Financial mortgage institutions' unquenchable greed and unethical behaviors of granting mortgage loans to applicants resulted in foreclosures of homes in the United States. Financial institutions, such as Wachovia, Citigroup, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Company assets backed collecterizatons are conjecturally losers in loans granted to applicants. Conversely, scholars in real estate posit that mortgage foreclosures on homeowners' cascades into economy recession, slowdown or cyclical trough (Aluya, 2007, 2007a, 2008; Austums, 2008; Cho, 2007).
TSH is a nonlinear disruptive technology that resets customer’s expectation, creates competitive advantages and shifts the market in favor of the disruptor (Yitts, 2006). TSH is an innovative technology that removed the dearth from the anchored business model. In this book, UPS, Hewlett-Package, Nokia, AOL Time Warner, and Yahoo are used as case studies. In the 21st century, organizational leaders use TSH to reposition strategically new products or services. TSH is also use in resetting industrial benchmarks and standards within the global terrain.
The author is the publisher of Housing in Sub-Saharan Cities in 2007. Housing Phenomena in Abuja, Nigeria-A Case Study, 2008, IN., U.S.A.
Joseph Aluya was born in Jos, Nigeria. Both parents were from Ekpoma, Ishan, in Edo State of Nigeria. Joseph Aluya migrated to the United States in 1983. In 1984, he enrolled and attended Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, California, where he graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in business administration. He transferred his academic earned units to the California State University, Fullerton. At the California State University, Fullerton, while earning his degree in business administration, with emphasis in finance, he started real estate and financial business in California. With a successful financial business established, achieving his long held ambition of attaining a terminal degree will come to fruition. He attended University of Phoenix where he earned a master’s degree in business administration with emphasis in technology management. A doctorate degree in business administration was earned in the same institution. In his quest to continuously contribute to the academic scholarly discourse, he started publishing books. Joseph Aluya published Housing in Sub-Saharan African Cities in 2007 and Housing Phenomena in Abuja, Nigeria¾A Case Study in 2008. Dr. Aluya is a real estate broker in California and a strategic planner for major organizations in California. In the past two decades, Dr. Aluya has participated in the international real estate development within the sub-Saharan African region and the North American Cities. You can reach the author at jparadigm@aol.com.
In the late 21st century, two schools of thoughts emerged within the high technology industries. Contemporary technologists in organizations advocate resetting customer's expectation through technological situational happenstances (known as TSH). TSH encompasses all nonlinear spheres of technology (Christensen, Verlinden, & Westerman, 2002; Hirooka, 2003). Within the first school of thought are technologists who advocate using hybrid forms of traditional methodology of non-technological orientations and adaptations of innovative technologies to resetting industrial standards.
The second school of thought advocates organizations’ adaptation to nonlinear and disruptive technology. Technologists imbibe with this global mindset are frontiers, inventors and innovators in strategically repositioning of new industrial products or services. Conversely, leaders in organizations now deploy new technologies to reposition strategically new products or services within the global terrain (Harper & Becker, 2004, Spring).
In chapter 1, TSH transforms various leadership styles irrespective of the interdisciplinary, epistemological or pedagogical differences in the interpretation of leadership. Bass (1985) and Burns (1978) leadership styles are dissected, analyzed and synthesized with TSH as an effective tool in dissemination of information in organizations. The commonalities and differences in Bass' and Burns' various leadership theories were expounded in this chapter. TSH is used as a trajectory toward effective and efficient leadership styles, despite the differences or commonalities documented in Bass' and Burns' theories (Dmitry, 2007; Yukl, 2006). TSH helps executives’ in organizations to expeditiously terminate dysfunctional and bad leaders. All the good ingredients and hallmarks that are enshrined in good and effective leaders are conspicuously missing in dysfunctional or bad leaders (Gallagher, 2002).
Chapter 2 explains the historical real estate trends in the United States from the 1880s to present and how TSH is used to expeditiously approve loans to the detriment of the loan applicants. Historically, in 1775, institutional mortgage lending was a novel idea extrapolated from people pooling resources together to help own homes in England. According Lea (1994), historical record revealed that the first loan ever granted was to Oxford Provident. Further, a cursory look at the history of the internet, extranet and intranet is discussed.
In chapter 3, the first school of thought was holistically analyzed from the embryonic stage of the analog system to the present day use of technology. There was a paradigm shift from the analog to the integrated circuits that saw the introduction of digital computer with microprocessors that included modems and semiconductor memories; then into another phase of TSH.
Chapter 4 was a synopsis of broadband technology and its relevance to understanding the effectiveness of TSH as the wave of the future. Apparently, the core question in this chapter anchored on how comfortable or cognitively dissonance is the external and internal stakeholders in embracing broadband technology while transmitting information to the end-users?
Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 analyzed the case studies of Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, UPS, Yahoo, and AOL Time Warner Corporation. The role TSH plays in these companies in resetting industrial standards is illuminated.
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