Let Go of Expectations Don't expect enlightenment.
"Next week's Inflation Report should provide more enlightenment, pointing, in our expectation, to rates remaining very low for some time yet".
He expected enlightenment.
Don't expect enlightenment.
Stop expecting reciprocity or enlightenment.
The firm describes five stages through which new ideas progress - the innovation trigger, the peak of inflated expectations, the trough of disillusionment, the slope of enlightenment, and finally the plateau of productivity.
[See illustration above] Five phases in a technology life cycle are identified: 1) the technology trigger 2) the peak of inflated expectations 3) the trough of disillusionment 4) the slope of enlightenment 5) the plateau of productivity.
The Enlightenment commitment to the sovereignty of reason was tied to the expectation that it would not lead to any of these consequences but instead would support certain key beliefs that tradition had always sanctioned.
This new age of digital enlightenment means that when organisations are born they come with built-in expectation inflation.
Despite all expectations, the transforming driver of the College turned out to be the Scottish Enlightenment that Witherspoon had lampooned so brilliantly 15 years before, upon which his intellectual credentials rested.
