Working with graduates is fun, challenging and stimulating! I can tell you that the future is in good hands with such bright young people
coming through. But Gen Y sometimes get a bad rap from the older generations. I'm a "Baby Boomer" and I think us oldies have to work to improve our ability to
understand, communicate and collaborate with tech-savvy youngsters.
Last month I worked with several groups of graduates. What
was enlightening was the wisdom one confided over lunch: “Some
people mistake why we feel we have to go far, fast. We feel we have to do amazing
things because we’ve been given so much. Our parents, other older people, have
done so much for us, we have to give back.”
Doesn’t that put a new perspective
on the massive ambition Gen Y is often criticized for?
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