Digital Leadership in Facing Challenges in the Era Industrial Revolution 4.0

Abstract

The digital era is a progress that must be followed in the business environment in order to survive where leadership is one of the keys to running a business. This progress requires leaders who are able to behave adaptively, and anticipate various forms of change that will occur in the future. A leader is considered capable of transforming visionaries in the face of various forms of change and can also realize a vision that can be realized into reality. The purpose of this research is for leaders to take steps, and attitudes that are influenced by the very fast development of technology and the change from traditional leaders to digital leadership. Such leaders are able to inspire their employees to innovate and defend their ideas. This article uses a descriptive qualitative approach as well as the main writing approach and uses digital leadership theory. This research is an exploratory research that observes one informant as the research sample. Thus, it is hoped that a leader in the digital era will be able to transform, and be able to have credibility, integrity, perseverance and also a passion to serve and contribute to catalyzing change in achieving the organization's vision. The results of this study are to realize the success of leadership in the digital era, namely the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. Which is supported by seven characteristics of digital leaders, namely responsibility, results of information dissemination, goals and assessments, mistakes and conflicts, change and innovation.