During a CEO strategy session last week in Miami Beach for a major global publisher, I outlined that one of the key areas of focus for innovative organizations is effective “generational collaboration.”
There’s no doubt that the transformation in politics in the last year is due to the way the “next generation” has utilized the technology tools they know to effectively steamroller the opposition. This is an extremely transformative trend that will impact every industry through the next ten years. It is perhaps the MOST transformative trend.
In how many organizations is senior management being similarly blindsided by rapid developments and a dramatic power shift as the next generation pursues their unique ideas, utilizing the power of social networking and other technologies?
Does your organization leadership team really understand the vast transformation that is underway in the economy as Gen-Connect asserts itself in the workplace, within business models, and within corporate structure?
In my Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast book, I opened with a chapter that explored this phenomena in the context of ‘generational dynamics.’ Titled Cardboard People, Plasma People.
It’s well worth a read.
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