Affects of Social Media on Leadership

In today’s society there is a new desire to know what others are doing. Social media enables users to keep tabs on their followers while maintaining user productivity. The affects of social media has changed the way individuals receive their news, read their magazines, and organize the information they find on the Web. It has made the way people receive information easier and has challenged the way businesses are modeled.

This viewpoint does contribute to the study of leadership. Social media has introduced a new way of doing things. Desired results are achieved while incorporating a grouping of ones peers. This is what leadership is about. Leadership influences people to accomplish a goal while directing an organization to become more unified. The new processes made available by social media can also be viewed as a form of leadership. Businesses are influenced and then strive to create similar processes for their organizations.

Health care leaders can use this viewpoint as an introduction to social media. Technology has become so advanced that social media can now be used to enhance the physician patient relationship. Patients can use status updates to inform physicians of any health issues or concerns. Physicians can tag health information relevant to a patient and post it to a patient’s news feed. Social media can allow a physician to be more productive while never having to leave his/her office. The health care leader’s responsibilities include introducing the idea to the physician and providing the training to ensure that the use of such media is productive.

Chapter Two

Social media’s ability to keep track of peoples behaviors at all times has created an era where privacy is limited. For this reason businesses who ut...

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...organization of their choice. Social media also makes it easier for them to discuss their views on the care they receive and/or their views on those that cared for them. With this type of power patients can ruin the reputation of an organization. Health care leaders are then responsible for ensuring the power that these patients have benefits the organization.

After reading this book I have a new found understanding of just how much affect social media can have. This book was easy to read, easy to understand, and contained good information. Would I have chosen to read this book outside of this course? I do not believe so. However, it definitely fits with the study of leadership. I do not feel that it made me think differently about leadership, especially in health care. Overall this book provides good information and would be beneficial to use in future courses.