We seem to want real time everything.\u00a0 We schedule meetings when and where the most of us can be together in the same room.\u00a0 When that fails, we schedule conference calls.\u00a0 I\u2019m a definite culprit of this as I will always meet my clients face to face when the opportunity presents a choice.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, real time transactions, while growing from a data perspective, are shrinking from a human perspective.<\/p>\n
Consider this.\u00a0 You read this blog post, which may be in response to a blog post written by one of my other favorite bloggers weeks ago.\u00a0 You then decide to comment, and it may take a couple days before someone else reads and responds to you.\u00a0 A simple conversation and exchange of ideas can take weeks.<\/p>\n
Consider text messaging.\u00a0 Rather than placing a phone call and interrupting a meeting that might be going on, I\u2019ll text message my wife letting her know my flight has been delayed and I\u2019ll be home late.\u00a0 She can pick up the message whenever she is ready.<\/p>\n
Pre-GenX workers and to a large extent GenX as well are very into real time communications.\u00a0 But the world and technology is increasingly lending itself to non-real-time conversations.\u00a0 GenY millennials are increasingly comfortable with conversations that span hours or days or longer.\u00a0 Ideas from these conversations hang around and tickle the backs of our brains until the become useful in some unexpected context.<\/p>\n
In some ways, the rest of us have also gotten used to async communications.\u00a0 E-mail is the perfect example where we\u2019ll send a message knowing that a response may not come back immediately because the recipient is in a meeting or has other priorities.\u00a0 We\u2019ll undoubtedly see more of this coming with hopes that it makes us more efficient and allowing us to prioritize as we see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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