Leadership’s Future: The Other Side Of Millennials
Thursday, July 9th, 2009The problem with generational labels is that one size never fits all—they are merely convenient designations.
As with any large group, negative attitudes and actions often get more attention and press than positive ones and I’m no exception.
Leadership’s Future is often about Millennials—their sense of entitlement, expectations, impatience, and the parental intervention that fuels it.
My Millennial friends kid me that I’m ignoring a large number of their demographic, although even they don’t claim that it’s anywhere near a majority.
But they do have a point, so I’m offering up a new term to designate those who are chronologically, but not psychologically, Millennials.
aMillennial, because placing an ‘a’ in front of a word nullifies its meaning (see a-6).
I ran into a great example of the positive at AARP’s u@50 contest.
It wasn’t the first place winner that blew me away, but the second.
Her words are an inspiration for us all and a good lesson to remember that people change as life changes.
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