In most workplaces, there are three generations of workers.

The innovation economy is starting to emerge as a powerful driver of value. It is edging out the knowledge economy that used to be this source of value, and the replacement is happening despite companies best efforts to ignore it. You can see this happening in companies such as, for example, Microsoft and General Motors who are superb knowledge companies, but did little better in the recent global crisis than organisations based on industrial age economics such as agriculture.