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daniellecon: Some days it feels like this -Danielle

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:32:10 -0700

Some days it feels like this -Danielle

Lidos: Facebook Is The Secret To Motivating Millennial Workers

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:47:00 -0700

Lidos: Facebook Is The Secret To Motivating Millennial Workers:

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably been inundated with news about Facebook.

But if you’re like a lot of employers, you’ve had Facebook fatigue for a while. The fact that your 20-something, or millennial, employees are logged on to the site during work hours drives…

Millennials paralyzed by choice

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:43:00 -0700

Millennials paralyzed by choice:

sunkenntreasure:

By Priya Parker – Special to CNN

If January is when the old guard gathers in Davos, Switzerland, March is when the new guard descends on Austin, Texas. At a time of crisis in America, Europe, the Middle East and beyond, a group of tech-savvy do-gooders meets, greets and tweets at South By Southwest.

The conference has experienced a surge in popularity in recent years, exploring questions well beyond the sphere of technology. The several hundred panels and featured sessions for this year’s SXSW Interactive tend to reflect the current concerns of the rising elite. In this post, I’d like to add one concern to their list: Can the avid, accomplished doers at SXSW show the way for a rising generation of Millennials who are all too often afraid to fulfill their potential as leaders?

I run an advisory firm that works with leaders young and old to conceive and implement bold, authentic visions. As part of that work, I recently completed a year-long study of the values and behaviors of the world’s next generation of leaders – the most talented, educated, capable Millennials. I was curious about how this rising cohort of leaders makes decisions and plots the future. I concentrated on dual degrees, or graduates of elite master’s degree programs in both business and public policy.

These are people in their late twenties and early thirties who have usually worked in both the public and private sectors, lived in multiple countries, and passed through some of the most prestigious organizations on earth (the Gates Foundation, McKinsey & Co., offices of prime ministers and presidents).

What I found was a rising generation of elite leaders who bring wonderful new gifts to the table – more empathy than their predecessors, more worldliness, more pragmatism for an angry, ideological age. But I also found my generation of young leaders paralyzed, hesitant, and unwilling stick their necks out and lead on the big questions of our time: how to build a more equitable and sustainable capitalism, how to manage the transition to a post-Western world, how to extend prosperity to developing countries without pushing the planet over the brink.

This generation is distinct from its predecessors in demonstrating new ways of leading: less top down and more lateral; less by command than by catalysis. Its members tend to believe that change is made by bringing out the best in others. It is also less ideological and dogmatic, and more empirical and pragmatic than the generation now in power. Its religion is not party or, frankly, religion, but rather “impact.”

This generation feels pressure to make a difference in the world, and is comfortable using the levers of business, public policy and civil society to do so. And they tend not to be satisfied with small, everyday impact. “For my Dad, it would be his patients,” one child of a doctor told me, when asked about definitions of impact. “For me, it’s providing health care to benefit the largest amount of people.”

But strange anxieties are getting in the way of these ambitions – none more prominently than something called FOMO. It is the “fear of missing out,” and it has been written about by others (including in an article about SXSW last year) as a phenomenon caused by social media. These media show them all the cool places they could be and cool things they could be doing, which always seem better than where they now are. However, my research shows that FOMO is leaking out of the technology realm and becoming a defining ethic of a new generation.

“Am I setting up my adult life to be the way that it could optimally be?” one of my subjects asked aloud, speaking of her general approach to life decisions. This subject explained how FOMO could even invade the pursuit of a spouse: “On the personal side, there’s this fear of ‘Am I committing to the right person?’”

Millennial Generation: More Conservative In Saving Habits

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:42:00 -0700

Millennial Generation: More Conservative In Saving Habits:

world-shaker:

For a generation that is often criticized for their coddled upbringing and conspicuous consumption habits, new findings suggest that Millennials are actually more conservative than their parents when it comes to spending.

According to a study that was conducted in February by Bankrate.com, fewer Millennials have more credit card debt than money saved for a rainy day as compared to the boomer generation.

Twenty-four percent of Millennials have more debt than savings, compared to 31 percent of boomers.

Don’t forget the obscenely high student loan debt totals.

Don't worry be happy (results from an international youth study by InSites Consulting)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:40:51 -0700

megamashup:

Despite the many challenges American Millennials are facing, most are happy according to this survey:

Don’t worry be happy (results from an international youth study by InSites Consulting)

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Do today's young adults not care about the environment?

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:40:00 -0700

Do today's young adults not care about the environment?:

sjvceo:

This story is about surveys that show today’s young people care less about the environment than their predecessors. What do you think?

The Vulgar Trader: The Go-Nowhere Generation, or, How The New York Times Can Just Go Smoke Cock Today

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:59:00 -0700

The Vulgar Trader: The Go-Nowhere Generation, or, How The New York Times Can Just Go Smoke Cock Today:

vulgartrader:

I apologize for the rambling, block quote, and expletive laden make up of this post. I was just so overcome with rage by reading the opinion piece ”The Go-Nowhere Generation” that I had an aneurysm. The Atlantic has a nice rebuttal with graphs, I recommend that for purification purposes after…

"The worst generation? You’ve heard the whining, now studies back it up: Gen Y workers are the..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:50:00 -0700

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The worst generation?

You’ve heard the whining, now studies back it up: Gen Y workers are the pits

Gen Y workers get a bad rap in the workplace, with many a geezer complaining that their work ethic is less developed than their sense of entitlement. But is that really fair?

Yes, according to new research that’s yielded actual data to back up that notion.

In a series of studies using surveys that measure psychological entitlement and narcissism, University of New Hampshire management professor Paul Harvey found that Gen Y respondents scored 25 percent higher than respondents ages 40 to 60 and a whopping 50 percent higher than those over 61.

In addition, Gen Y’s were twice as likely to rank in the top 20 percent in their level of entitlement — the “highly entitled range” — as someone between 40 and 60, and four times more likely than a golden-ager.

Harvey’s conclusion? As a group, he says, Gen Yers are characterized by a “very inflated sense of self” that leads to “unrealistic expectations” and, ultimately, “chronic disappointment.”

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- http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobs/the_worst_generation_ZHtISjvJY3GglWGTlWa0gO

"For Millennials, It’s More About Personal Style Than Luxury Couples want their nuptials to reflect..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:25:00 -0700

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For Millennials, It’s More About Personal Style Than Luxury

Couples want their nuptials to reflect their particular story, and brands are adapting marketing campaigns to account for a new set of tastes and needs. Instead of traditional must-haves like engraved invitations or sit-down dinners, the millennials — people generally in their 20s — seek touches that showcase their interests and personal style.

The all-about-you brand approach can be found from the high-end jeweler Cartier, whose current slogan is “Your love is unique, so too should be your engagement ring,” to the affordable Michaels craft stores, which this year expanded their do-it-yourself wedding projects, urging people to “Personalize your special day your way.”

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- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/business/media/03adco.html

"Are millennials cut out for this job market? I hate to say it, but Americans might just need to..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:22:00 -0700

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Are millennials cut out for this job market?

I hate to say it, but Americans might just need to “reboot” the millennial generation. This is the cohort of 50 million people now between 18 and 30, the children of baby boomers or older members of generation X. And as researchers and other experts have trained their attention on them, a profile has emerged: Speaking broadly, millennials are tech-savvy, highly educated and have incredibly high self-esteem even if they haven’t done much to deserve it. (To be sure, not every millennial is college educated and exhibits all these traits; we’re speaking broadly.)

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- http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-05/opinion/navarrette.millennials.jobs_1_millennials-generation-college-students?_s=PM:OPINION

"Millennials and Baby Boomers: At Odds or Peas in a Pod? But technology and “coolness” aside, the..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:18:00 -0700

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Millennials and Baby Boomers: At Odds or Peas in a Pod?

But technology and “coolness” aside, the number one source of generational stereotypes about Boomers and Millennials is the discussion of work ethic. Millennials, we’ve heard, are coddled, entitled and expectant of a trophy for showing up at work every day. Conversely, Boomers are micro-managers who don’t respect the talents of young employees. Unfortunately for both cohorts, there is undeniable truth to these particular generalizations. More unfortunately for the Boomers, they’ve got only themselves to blame. Helicopter parents, it seems, have become helicopter managers at work. “Boomers can say what they want. They call Millennials coddled,” says Pollak, “but deep down they know that—as their parents—they made them that way.” In generational studies, the Millennials are often referred to by another name: The Echo Boomers.

And interestingly enough, when asked about their “best friend,” the overwhelming majority of Millennials named a Boomer: their parents.

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- http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/01/19/millennial-and-baby-boomers-at-odds-or-peas-in-a-pod/

"In uncertain times, Millennials click back to the ’90s You’re what they call a..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:14:00 -0700

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In uncertain times, Millennials click back to the ’90s

You’re what they call a “Millennial,” born after 1980 and now roughly between your tweens and your 30s. There are 101 million of you, the largest generation now alive.

You’re well-educated but, in this bad economy, you’re more than likely unemployed. If you are employed, you’re underemployed, itching to contribute to an organization that doesn’t quite understand how much you have to offer. Really! You know you are far more tech-savvy than your boss. She knows it, too.

You’re restless, ready to change the world, ready to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook. And most likely, you’re also living back home with the folks. Oddly enough, you don’t mind. Neither do they.

Millennials are often thought of as spoiled. Some have dubbed you the “Babied Boom.” But your babying days are over, as anyone watching the job market can easily see.

So how are you spending a good portion of your time in these “doubled-up households,” aka Mom and Dad’s place? Reminiscing. Looking back to the ’90s.

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- http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/story/2011-10-24/90s-nostalgia/50898514/1

"Millennials Are More ‘Generation Me’ Than ‘Generation We,’ Study..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:50:00 -0700

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Millennials Are More ‘Generation Me’ Than ‘Generation We,’ Study Finds

Millennials, the generation of young Americans born after 1982, may not be the caring, socially conscious environmentalists some have portrayed them to be, according to a study described in the new issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The study, which compares the traits of young people in high school and entering college today with those of baby boomers and Gen X’ers at the same age from 1966 to 2009, shows an increasing trend of valuing money, image, and fame more than inherent principles like self-acceptance, affiliation, and community. “The results generally support the ‘Generation Me’ view of generational differences rather than the ‘Generation We,’” the study’s authors write in a report published today, “Generational Differences in Young Adults’ Life Goals, Concern for Others, and Civic Orientation.”

For example, college students in 1971 ranked the importance of being very well off financially No. 8 in their life goals, but since 1989, they have consistently placed it at the top of the list.

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- http://chronicle.com/article/Millennials-Are-More/131175/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

"Gen Y Demands Greater Work Flexibility, Says Cisco Study A third of the college students and others..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:44:00 -0700

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Gen Y Demands Greater Work Flexibility, Says Cisco Study

A third of the college students and others under 30 said that they would prioritize social media freedom, device flexibility, and work mobility over salary in accepting a job offer. Of course, this could be idealism speaking and we’ll see what they say when many will have trouble finding any job in this down economy. A sizable minority (40%) said they would take a lower-paying job that offered more in the way of device flexibility and social media access during work hours. And 56% said that if their job blocked access to social sites, they would not accept the offer or else join the company and look for ways to circumvent this policy. Food for thought for IT managers, certainly. Nearly two-thirds of job seekers plan on asking about social media usage policies during their interviews. So what are the rest going to do, fake their way through it?

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- http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/11/gen-y-demands-greater-work-fle.php

"Generation Sell EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:00 -0700

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Generation Sell

EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial. The question is, what’s underneath? What idea of life? What stance with respect to the world?

Previous youth cultures — beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers — could be characterized by two related things: the emotion or affect they valorized and the social form they envisioned. For the hippies, the emotion was love: love-ins, free love, the Summer of Love, all you need is love. The social form was utopia, understood in collective terms: the commune, the music festival, the liberation movement.

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- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all

"Is Your Firm Ready for the Millennials? Since the Sixties, the news about young people has almost..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:39:00 -0700

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Is Your Firm Ready for the Millennials?

Since the Sixties, the news about young people has almost always been bad, with each generation described in turn as more violent, more alienated, and more selfish than the generation that preceded it. But two scholars at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and other demographic experts say that the generation born since 1982 seems to be breaking the mold. The Millennial Generation, as they’re now dubbed, are apparently a nicer bunch in many respects than the prior two – less violent, less alienated, and less selfish. Not only are the kids all right, but some pundits predict that they will go on to become another “Greatest Generation,” the World War II era cohort now mostly of sainted memory.

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- http://knowledge.emory.edu/article.cfm?articleid=950

"The Sugar Daddy recession The economic downturn has forced some women into arrangements with..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:35:00 -0700

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The Sugar Daddy recession

The economic downturn has forced some women into arrangements with unsavory men, and made desperation into a fetish

In the loneliest corner of the internet, a man named Rian is offering a “monthly allowance” for a “sweet and caring [girl] who appreciates all I do for her.” He’s in his 30s, works in IT and earns good money — so how about $1,000 dollars a month if the sex works out?

He’s not looking for a “professional.” Liam wants to pay for “cuddles” and “fun” from a “hard-up” student. Call it what you like — an arrangement, a delicate excuse for sex work or modern love at its most upfront — there are hundreds of thousands of men all over the world looking for it, and as the job market explodes, more and more women are desperate enough to take them up on it. The women call themselves sugar babies; men like Rian are known as sugar daddies.

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- http://www.salon.com/2012/03/06/the_sugar_daddy_recession/singleton/

"Is Sex Passé? WHAT could be more eternal than sexuality? The fog of longing, the obsession with the..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:30:00 -0700

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Is Sex Passé?

WHAT could be more eternal than sexuality? The fog of longing, the obsession with the loved one’s voice, smell, touch. Sex is discombobulating and distracting, it makes you immune to money, politics and family. And sometimes I think the younger generation wants to give it up.

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- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/opinion/sunday/10sex.html (via nixyfix)

"For Gen Y, moving back with their parents is a LOL You would think young adults stuck living at home..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:25:00 -0700

“For Gen Y, moving back with their parents is a LOL
You would think young adults stuck living at home with their parents would be sending texts of despair to friends about their lot in life.

Think again. Most Gen Yers think it’s gr8.

Three out of ten adults, ages 25 to 34, are living with their folks and of those 78 percent said they’re happy with it, according to a Pew Research survey released Thursday and titled “The Boomerang Generation: Feeling OK about Living with Mom and Dad.”

Even more surprising is that 77 percent of those still under their parent’s roof have high hopes for their economic futures.”

- http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/15/10689031-for-gen-y-moving-back-with-their-parents-is-a-lol