Why are we treating social so differently than the market disruptions that we’ve lived through before? I feel as though I have actually contributed to this problem. I have been evangelizing that social is different. I am now seeing the impact over the past few weeks through my conversations:
- Why have so many executives asked me how they too can become a “social” subject matter expert? That somehow, by virtue of reading the right blogs, by attending the right events, by getting other SMEs to share their wisdom, they too could become the “guru” within their company or for their clients?
- Why it is so difficult for smart, experienced senior executives to absorb social as an innovation, as a market transformation?
- Why are these same senior executives who in the past would clearly lead the charge within their organizations now deferring and abdicating their role in this process?
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