Millennials and those who study them love to position them as demanding different things from the workplace than their predecessors.
The latest is a list from LeaderTalk that describes Millennials’ Five Leadership Truths:
Truth #1 – Leadership development begins with self development; it’s about the individual; what is the first question most people want to ask a new leader?
Truth #2 – You can’t do it alone
Truth #3 – The foundation of Leadership is Credibility
Truth #4 – You either lead by example or you don’t lead at all.
Truth #5 – Being forward-looking most differentiates leaders.
Nearly two years ago Success Television listed Gen Y’s …read more

I’m old enough to remember when maturity was something to strive for; when living with your parents post 18 made you a loser; when being cool also meant being independent and paying for your own place was a badge of honor.
But that was then and this is now.
Andrew Gordon sent me a link to a Washington Post article discussing how thirty-something is the new twenty-something (the comments are well worth reading, too).
In other words, people are “coming of age” far later in life than ever before.
Maybe this isn’t surprising, since people aren’t aging the way they did.
In books and films …read more

Have you stopped to think that the “leaders” responsible for this mess are mostly Boomers and a few older Gen X?
It doesn’t surprise me, the Boomers’ parents tried to give them everything that they didn’t have and ended up with the first sex/drugs/rock&roll generation that thumbed their collective nose at “the rules” more than any previous one.
They, in turn, raised the first “entitled” generation and Gen X has increased that attitude by an order of magnitude.
In 1977 Richard Nixon said, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal,” and it seems as if the generations that revile …read more