A Dozen Reasons Why Leaders Should Be Technologically Savvy

1. If you require your students or employees to be proficient in technology, then you should be proficient in technology too.  (NOTE: I hate the "Do as I say, not as I do" form of leadership.)
2. Technology has its own vocabulary.  If you are not tech savvy, then you will not be able to communicate effectively with your IT department or your Computer Science department or tech people in general (etc.).
3. If you are in a leadership role at a college campus that has online courses, then you need to be tech savvy enough to communicate with your faculty about those course offerings and their advantages and limitations. (This applies to leaders who supervise corporate trainers too.)
4. Understanding how your company or institution can use social media to its advantage is a powerful thing.
5. Knowing how to use technology effectively can free hours of your time for other uses.
6. Technology can be a very effective communication and collaboration tool.
7. Understanding the types of marketing technologies available  can help you better communicate with your recruitment staff, as well as aid in the recruitment of new students, employees, or customers.
8. Webinars and other virtual meetings save both time and money, and can connect people from all over the world in real time.  Knowing this is useful information.
9. Knowing what technologies your competitors and also your partners use can help you with decisions about which technologies would be good investments for your campus or company.
10. To be an effective leader, you need to be able to embrace change.  Technology is all about change.  
11. Understanding today's technologies will morph into a greater understanding of tomorrow's technologies.  
12. Technology is a very useful tool in the hands of a leader who knows how to use it.