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Information technology is rapidly advancing in every industry and organizations are responding to an increasingly digital market environment by adding new job roles with an explicit digital focus. Business and organizational leaders need to know how to use the ‘internet of things’, virtual reality, big data, and machine learning for effectively attaining organizational goals. More importantly, digitalization is radically changing the way leaders interact, communicate, supervise and develop their followers. However, despite the proliferation of digital roles and responsibilities, most executives recognize that their companies are not adequately preparing for the industry changes they expect to emerge from digital trends. Considering both the opportunities and the complexities of digitalization, it is important to know that theoretically and empirically advances understandings of how leaders negotiate the challenges associated with digitalization and digital transformation processes.