Simon Sinek on Millennials in the workplace

[crimsonaudio]

Good video here - not whining, but explaining, with some science to back it up.

Those of use raising GenZ kids can learn a lot from this. Worth the 15 minutes.

 

[Tidewater]

That was interesting.
Interesting enough to make me want to look into who this Simon Sinek was.
Fortunately, I got instant gratification in that quest.

 

[MDBSnare]

Everyone should watch this. Very insightful!

 

[Bamabuzzard]

For the most part I agree with him. One thing that I don't agree with, even though he's right, is the repeated term "It's not their fault". Giving someone the "it's not your fault" line can be a very dangerous thing, even though it can be completely true. Too many times (and I think it's human nature for most) people latch onto anything they can to use as a crutch to stay the way they are. He's dead on as to what has caused the behavior we see in Millennials. Bad parenting. We saw this coming decades ago when the participation trophies started getting popular, youth sport leagues quit keeping score, discipline and correction was replaced with "redirecting" and "Positive reinforcement". Why anyone is shocked by how the Millennials have turned out wasn't paying attention or was apart of the "bad parenting".

I'm not real fond of his solution, but to be honest, I don't know another way. Just add an entire generation to the list of "kids" society has to "fix" and deal with, due to lack of parenting.

 

[mikes12]

I agree with Bamabuzzard above, but have another criticism. The general idea that it's "the corporation" at fault for destroying people's feelings of fulfillment.

Maybe it's just me, but the way I look at it, you go to work to do a job and make a living. Find your personal fulfillment on your own time.

 

[CajunCrimson]

For the most part I agree with him. One thing that I don't agree with, even though he's right, is the repeated term "It's not their fault". Giving someone the "it's not your fault" line can be a very dangerous thing, even though it can be completely true. Too many times (and I think it's human nature for most) people latch onto anything they can to use as a crutch to stay the way they are. He's dead on as to what has caused the behavior we see in Millennials. Bad parenting. We saw this coming decades ago when the participation trophies started getting popular, youth sport leagues quit keeping score, discipline and correction was replaced with "redirecting" and "Positive reinforcement". Why anyone is shocked by how the Millennials have turned out wasn't paying attention or was apart of the "bad parenting".

I'm not real fond of his solution, but to be honest, I don't know another way. Just add an entire generation to the list of "kids" society has to "fix" and deal with, due to lack of parenting.

I blame the "it takes a village" folks

 

[CajunCrimson]

He is right about the corporate leadership in our country. They aren't sure how to create the right environment to develop millennial talent.

 

[CajunCrimson]

I agree with Bamabuzzard above, but have another criticism. The general idea that it's "the corporation" at fault for destroying people's feelings of fulfillment.

Maybe it's just me, but the way I look at it, you go to work to do a job and make a living. Find your personal fulfillment on your own time.

Though personally, I agree. From the perspective of the economy, we better figure it out soon. The Xers are now approaching or at 50....and the Ys are going to have to take over at some point soon.

 

[MDBSnare]

For the most part I agree with him. One thing that I don't agree with, even though he's right, is the repeated term "It's not their fault". Giving someone the "it's not your fault" line can be a very dangerous thing, even though it can be completely true. Too many times (and I think it's human nature for most) people latch onto anything they can to use as a crutch to stay the way they are. He's dead on as to what has caused the behavior we see in Millennials. Bad parenting. We saw this coming decades ago when the participation trophies started getting popular, youth sport leagues quit keeping score, discipline and correction was replaced with "redirecting" and "Positive reinforcement". Why anyone is shocked by how the Millennials have turned out wasn't paying attention or was apart of the "bad parenting".

I'm not real fond of his solution, but to be honest, I don't know another way. Just add an entire generation to the list of "kids" society has to "fix" and deal with, due to lack of parenting.

Sorry, just think that is a funny statement!

 

[crimsonaudio]

I agree with Bamabuzzard above, but have another criticism. The general idea that it's "the corporation" at fault for destroying people's feelings of fulfillment.

I don't think he's blaming the corporations for destroying anything - seems to be pretty clearly blaming the parents directly and society in general. I took his point to be that if corporations want to get he best / most out of their employees, they're going to have to work harder to help some of these people who have never faced adversity before, who have never had to really work to achieve a goal.

He even says something along the lines of 'I know it sucks, but this is the hand you've been dealt' regarding corporations dealing with those precious snowflakes who were never prepared for the real world.

The entire issue stems from crappy parenting - this video (to me) comes across as 'what can we, as companies and society, do about it?'

 

[Intl.Aperture]

He's right that now corporations are saddled with having to motivate their workforce or risk losing revenue. I disagree with his tactic of continually saying "It's not your fault" to Millenials. Since fault has been placed elsewhere that increases victim mentality in the minds of this generation. That furthers the sense of entitlement that he was referencing. "It's not my fault I'm like this, someone else did this to me. You now have an obligation to work around me sensitivities." A hurricane rips the roof off my house. I can't punish the hurricane. So who can I get to to give me a new roof? It's not my fault my roof got ripped off!I think he completely abandons any semblance of enforcing personal responsibility. The individual is still responsible for themselves. The collective is not. YES, corporations may want to work out how to deal with Millenials to save their own skin but they should not twist in the wind for one second trying to cater to them because they think they have some ethical or larger societal burden to bear. Milton Friedman would roll in his grave.Yah, this generation had some crappy parenting - but everyone has to deal with something. And if the market adapts it need only be to save itself - the same goes for the individual Millenial.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

One thing my wife and I have noticed about many parents today compared to our parents is how involved the parents are in their kids "play time". We were just talking today how when we were kids our parents went about their business doing "adult things" around the house and we went and played. Either by ourselves or with other kids. Our parents rarely spent ours playing with us and our friends. But today parents want to make every moment a "life time memory" and are involved in every waking minute of their child's life. My wife pointed out to me today where a parent posted "live" videos of her daughter's four day birthday party. FOUR DAY birthday party. It was this huge event. These kids are being raised to believe every thing in their life has to be a monumental, breath taking event and when it's not they thing something is "wrong" and needs to be fixed. I can only imagine what the generation that is currently under the age of 15 today will look like as adults. It will make the Millennials look like a well rounded mature generation.

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

Excellent vid. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

He is right about the corporate leadership in our country. They aren't sure how to create the right environment to develop millennial talent.

We struggle with that at our company as well. The average age of our company is 44. We started hiring some younger folks, just a few years out of college and a couple of the management team are struggling with how to "motivate" them.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I'm dealing with a "real time" example of this crap right now. My daughter has a friend over staying the night. My wife and I are in the living room watching the Sugar Bowl. I've already told my daughter twice (in private) that her and her friend need to play upstairs in her room, not in the living room while are trying to watch tv. Her friend keeps coming down stairs and insisting on trying to be the center of attention, talking non stop. We've tried to "ignore it" in hopes she gets the message and stops. But unfortunately that isn't working and now she's started saying "Let's play a game, when someone spends the night with me, my parents play games with us." At this point I've had enough. So, I instructed both of them they need to play in my daughter's room or the "play room". If they can't find something to do then they need to go to bed or she needs to call her parents to come pick her up.