Entrepreneurs: Motivational ‘Duh’
by Miki SaxonTuesday I commented on the ‘duh’ factor in relation to Amazon finally eliminated forced ranking reviews, AKA, rank and yank, recognizing that they did nothing to foster teamwork or improve retention.
Like I said, “duh.”
Today we have Facebook offering up another duh moment.
Facebook is trying to accommodate millennials and its younger predecessor by talking to each worker and figuring out how their individual skills can be used to make a more personalized career path, not something more traditional and cookie cutter-like.
Definitely duh.
I defy you to think of anyone who works at any job and any level who doesn’t prefer this approach.
Take a look at what turns on/off the so-called silver-tsunami of Gen X and Boomers.
Millennials may walk faster than Gen X and Boomers when they don’t like the culture, but that, too, will change as they take on more responsibilities, such as kids, mortgages and aging parents
Whenever I hear how different the needs of millennials are compared to previous generations I’m reminded of these words from Socrates.
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Give it a rest.
You hire individuals and need to manage them as such.
So put away the cookie cutter and provide everyone, no matter their age, with an environment in which to grow and flourish and the tools needed to do it.
That’s your job in a nutshell.
Flickr image credit: David