I hope you will excuse the banality of my thoughts, but this letter from a (slightly arrogant?) youngster could have been written by a young student in the antic Greece even before Alexander the Great was born. With or without Enterprise 2.0 there is nothing new! Now, it does not mean that the frustration of young professionals facing establishment should not been recognized and handled with care. Being an arrogant old man in my 40s, I just call this “management”. Now, there are very few good managers, especially in IT firms. The so called Enterprise 2.0 novelty will just make this misery even more visible, especially when organizations have to grow: many of the young tenants of Enterprise Web 2.0 will too early become standard get-in-the-way-of-others managers. Let me repeat myseld, avoiding this or, let’s be humble, minimizing the damage, is called managment.

All the best – I love this blog as it inspires me.

Olivier Riviere