In the interview, Simon and I discussed what he calls the “Millennial Question”-namely why millennials have a bad rap, and how leaders can create an environment in which they can thrive. However impressed I was by him though, I was still caught by surprise when our interview went viral, being viewed well over 100,000,000 times. Simon’s insights on leadership are extraordinarily useful for anyone in the trenches leading a team, and I’m especially drawn to his empathy-rich “Leaders Eat Last” style of management. That’s why I was so eager to interview leadership expert Simon Sinek for my previous YouTube show Inside Quest. I’ll admit, as a leader, I’ve made my mistakes with millennials. Accusations of laziness, entitlement and lack of patience abound as far back as you can see, and yet somehow these statements glow red-hot with extra intensity when directed at millennials. It doesn’t take much digging to find quotes from hundreds of years ago that sound like they’re aimed at today’s millennials. “Quite frankly, it is the right thing to do,” Sinek concluded.Every generation complains about the youth coming up behind them.
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Ultimately, millennials have to learn how to find a balance between life and technology. “Things that really matter like love, job satisfaction and joy take time.” “This young generation needs to learn patience,” Sinek pointed out. When they aren’t having an immediate impact after just a few weeks on the job. They are slow, meandering and often messy processes and they take time. However, as Sinek points out, there is no app for job satisfaction or relationships.
“You don’t even have to learn social coping mechanisms everything you want you can have instantaneously,” Sinek noted. Can order something on Amazon today and have it tomorrow. Millennials have grown up in a world of immediate gratification.
“You have an entire generation that has access to this addictive technology,” Sinek notes the activity releases dopamine, just like gambling, smoking and other vices. Social media and cell phones are addictive. Social media are stirring excitement among millennials. Technology and social media addition are an issue. Ultimately, Sinek says these issues aren’t the fault of millennials. “We have a generation with low self-esteem than previous generations.” “In an instant, they find out they are not special, their moms can’t get them a promotion and you can’t have it just because you want it,” Sinek explains. The individual graduates and is now thrust into the real world. Many times, they got participation medals and received higher grades than they may have deserved because teachers didn’t want to deal with the parents. “They were told they were special all of the time and they could have anything in life just because they wanted it.” “In the generation we call the millennials, too many of them grew up subject to, not my words, failed parenting strategies,” he said.
Sinek points to four basic points, including parenting, technology, impatience and environment. The response is that they are seeking to work for a company that has a purpose and they want to make an impact. “Because they confound leadership so much, what is happening is leaders are asking millennials ‘what do you want?” Millennials, born 1984 and after frequently are deemed tough to manage and are accused of being entitled, narcissistic, self-interested, unfocused and lazy. “I have yet to give a speech or have a meeting where someone doesn’t ask me the ‘millennial question,” he said. In a YouTube presentation, leadership expert Simon Sinek points out that too often, millennials are not fitting into the work setting, and it is through no fault of their own.Ī motivational speaker and marketing consultant, Sinek is the author of four books, including “Leaders Eat Last.” In recent years, managers have faced a new challenge in the workplace: How to handle the new generation of workers known as millennials.
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