Leadership, Real Estate and Disruptive Technology: Technological Situational Happenstances

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.

In this revised edition, learners are introduced to the internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT). The conceptualization and explanation of IoT and IIoT are catechized in later chapters. Also examined was how deft leadership collaborative efforts with the data analysts (DA), data scientists (DS) and information analysts (IA) have resulted in organizations maximizing profit. Various archetypes of leadership or deft leadership styles were used to explain why organizations profit or lose businesses.  Explained in the succeeding chapters were the economic cyclical historical peaks and troughs of the United States. These cyclical time lines have resulted in about ten recessions and recovery periods in the United States. Examined were the historical trends within the real estate industry from the 1800s to the present. Scholastic gleaned literature materials were used to support this cyclical extrapolated historical phenomenal data at various stages within the real estate industry.
Further, due to technological situational happenstances (TSHs), two schools of thoughts did emerged and the differences are discussed in details in later chapters. Big data was introduced and in the foreground, APPLE Corporation's used of important data gleaned from large datasets was narratively presented as a case study. Case studies of AOL Time Warner, Hewlett-Packard, UPS, reasons why Microsoft acquired Nokia and Yahoo Corporation were also presented and discussed in various chapters.
Further explained were disruptive technologies. Disruptive technologies within this context will be the leadership novel ideas of using smart technology (ST) to disrupt the existing systems in organizations. ST favors the disrupters within the creative processes of these new technologies-newbies. Then, what are smart technologies? As explained in later chapters, smart technologies included but not limited to analytic and reporting technologies embedded in TSHs, smart boards, mapping of software, and self-monitoring interconnecting sensors. Unambiguously, scholars categorized of having these global mindsets of reasoning posit that technological innovations' triggered from new changes in organizations used TSHs for sustainable competitiveness (Christensen, Anthony and Roth, 2004; Hart and Christensen, 2002; Yitts, 2006). Technologists with this global mindset of reasoning stated that new innovation contradicts the application and infusion of historical technological trends for competitive advantages. These technologists believed that anesthetic experiences of innovations do evaporates and die like summer flies.