These comments from Andrew McAfee don't surprise me at all:
So I asked for a show of hands. I asked "How many of us, when we look into the crystal ball that shows the organization of the near future -- say 3 to 5 years from now -- see widespread deployment of E2.0 technologies?"
Almost every hand in the room went up.
At this point I completely lost my poker face. I sputtered "You have got to be kidding me!!" or something equally profound as I stared around the room.
In my opinion many people who attend these conferences are:
- Technology optimists. "I use blogs and wikis so why shouldn't everyone else?"
OR
- New to applying collaborative technologies (often, any technology) to enterprises and haven't learned any lessons, yet.
Younger workers coming in to a company may change it's culture. Then again, maybe they won't. Many will have to make a choice of either assimilating to the existing culture (which is preferable since the size of their future paycheck will hinge on their assimilation) or become frustrated and leave.
To me generational change can have an impact but is much slower. I don't recommend managers rely on it as a business strategy for change.
