Me: Who Is Clueless Now ?

 Goodness me.

I only thought I was clueless. Which rock was I sleeping under to not "get" this perspective about the Generation Y population, before now? It's a different world for us all, now.

If you don't want to watch the video, I'll save you the effort. The rules have changed, and the new young adults coming into the work force today have no intention of playing by our rules. Who said they were our rules anyway? Work? Who's definition of work?

Supposedly, I'm the cause of this problem. We raised our children exactly as described in this video, so if my own kids come out the way the video describes I can't point to anyone else. 

Another Example: Leadership

Where I am all "off" is in the way I run my team at work. I do the standard time tested drill sargeant thing. Very much "old school."  Now I can't believe we're even pulling it off. We have a millennial on our team and he's buckling under just fine.

Hmmm. I need to stay off the internet - this kind of stuff is disturbing. I was just looking for the spelling of millennia (as in a thousand years), and happened upon this video by accident.

A More Academic View

If you're looking for a more academic view of the generations puzzle, Strauss and Howe began a serious pursuit of Generations and their place in history with a book Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 some 20 years ago, and have since written a couple others. I've only read one and a quarter of the books so far, if I read any faster than a few pages of week I seem to lack the appropriate amount of reflection that it takes for me to absorb the consequences of their understandings. 

A wikipedia article about Millennials can be found here