[maigret]

You may find it a flaw but remember this belongs to the bigger cultural environment. So for example, in another country you might see people being shy about self promoting, but you'll also have difficulties engaging them in small talk, or even making new friends. Also, people may get the same reluctancy over new technologies than they have about new behaviors.

Anyway, alpha people exist everywhere, they just tend to display it differently in another cultures so you don't notice at first.

Also - it's not corporate America only. The world isn't that different.

[coldtea]

>Also, people may get the same reluctancy over new technologies than they have about new behaviors.

That doesn't sound bad. Why shouldn't they be reluctant to adopt new technologies and new behaviors?

What they already use is "tried and tested", the other has what going for it? The novelty aspect?

[maigret]

I pretty much agree - as long as this is healthy untrust. Why redo something running for little benefit? But I know many people who dismissed smart phones at the beginning, or other pretty big things like AJAX. Their decision wasn't much based on a sound analysis. Also often they failed to identify the new realm. Rather when someone say "with that technology you can do that and that which is new, and in the future you may be able to do this, but it is limiting on that and this aspect", I take the person much more seriously for their analysis. The tried and tested may be what you know to use, but something better might come along as well, or establish a different new playground which you cannot imagine of as possible in your current framework of thoughts.