Managing Generation Y
Posted by on 13th, 2010
An interview with Tammy Erickson, President of The Concours Institute. Tammy has co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles and the books “Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation” and “Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent.” Please visit her blog at HarvardBusiness.org.
perhaps america is fucked? in from new zealand. i walked to school all through my childhood, and during school holidays i worked with my father for some pocket money.
i think you just have a warped perception of what real young people actually are like.
your parents probably thought they did it much harder than you… living through the great depression and all. and they almost certainly did. lokk at the bigger picture here. nothings changed other than the usual changes.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@WILLFULOVER gen y are lazy immature brats that cant live with out mummy and daddy not creative or brilliant if i go into a shop i hate being served by gen y cause they are useless
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@blckprljin Yes, but a generalization supported by statistics.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@chroniclerofthe70s whoa now… i never said that recycled version comment..? your putting words in my mouth. my point was merely that every generation is different to the one before it. and the older ones always complain about how they dont understand the younger ones, this has aways happened and is not some new phenomenon caused by a “useless, lazy, poorly raised, spoilt generation” like some boomers would have us believe.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@gorion79 no. your what they are calling generation next.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@tubestick00 okay, yes i thought you meant children of the 60s and 70s. I grew up in the 70s my parents were born in the early to mid 30s. I agree with you, seems Generation Y is a recycled version of their hippie boomer parents.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
wiseye61 There is nothing superior about Gen Y. Every technology used by Gen Y was invented in the minds of the World War II generation.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@MyUsername156 Your the first generation who totally communicate using digital technology. Your generation generally feels very comfortable with little privacy since you share many thoughts and opinions on twitter, facebook, etc.
Gen X and previous generations have been communicating with telephones since the beginning of the 20th Century. Television has been around since the late 20. Gen Xers know many of the entertainment icons familiar to their grandparents.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
In no way is anyone born in 1980 a Gen Xer. I know many who are born in 1980 who have adopted political correctness of their parents exhibit the behaviours of Gen Yers.
Gen Xers have little or no political correctness.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@Tishwonder75
cool story bro
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Gen Y are the EGO generation, the me, myself and I reloaded, they are hard to manage and dealing with. They are plastic and just want life easy and fast, they values are broken and yes, they can do whatever the want but sometimes the abuse.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Generation debtmaker speaking about GenY immediacy… Funny…
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@eathenicus right… so im gen y cos i was born in 93…. kl
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
@Qdude10 yes you are in Gen Y. i think it ended in 2000, so anyone born after that is Gen Z
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Am I Gen Y, if I was born in 1996? And is my mother a baby boomer if she was born in 1960?
August 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm