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Millennial Leaders: Success Stories from Today's Most Brilliant Generation & Leaders ReviewThis was an interesting book to read. Supposedly it was written "to provide Generation Y with over 100 strategies for achieving career and personal success while also inspiring experienced leaders to be more open and receptive to the world views of Generation Y." Some might say it wasn't really written at all. But instead, was a compilation of 25 interviews taped, transcribed, edited, and glued together to make a book with the following five parts:
1. The "What" of the Y
2. The Entrepreneurial Spirit
3. The Digital Divide
4. Gen Y in the Workplace
5. Media Makes a Difference
The tag line to the title says this book provides "success stories from today's most brilliant Generation Y leaders." But I only saw nine of those. Six were included in Part II and three were included in Part IV. Those interviews were the best part of the book for me. I enjoy about reading success stories of people. And the fact that these young adults were still in their 20's was inspiring.
I was not familiar specifically about the time groupings for the various generations that make up our society today. The book informs us that there are basically four generations:
Traditionalists (Pre 1946 babies)
Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 to 1964)
Generation X (people born between 1965 to 1977)
Generation Y (Post 1977 babies)
I thought the book was well researched. And I thought the opinions of the supposed experts interviewed in parts I, III, and IV were somewhat accurate. However, in my humble opinion I think they all were unfair in describing Generation Y people (Y'ers) as "Generation Me." From what I could gather from reading the book Y'ers are into themselves. They don't like to work for others. And they think in the present rather than the long term. I felt the authors thought Y'ers are somehow different than the three generations that precede them.
I vehemently disagree. All four generations go through life the same way. All four generations do things based on incentives that are available to them. In our world today there are the haves and the havenots. The traditionalists and the baby boomers tend to be the haves. Generation X and Generation Y seem to be on the outside looking in. When the traditionalists and baby boomers went to school they did so with the expectation that there would be a good job waiting for them when they got out. And when they took a job with a company they usually correctly believed that the company would help them monetarily move up in their career and financially. There were incentives in place for those generations to be loyal to their employers.
Those same incentives do not exist today. The traditionalists and baby boomers either are at the top of the economic food chain and don't want to give up their financial status - or they are dutiful employees who just want to hang on to the job they have attained and the economic prosperity they enjoy. There is not enough financial prosperity around today for these people to share with the "new recruits," i.e., the X'ers and Y'ers. So the Y'ers see that the only way to get ahead today is to build their skill sets and become entrepreneurs.
There are three reasons for taking a job regardless of who you are: (1) to make money to support yourself, (2) to start a career where you can move up a ladder as an employee, or (3) to broaden your skill set so you can be a successful entrepreneur. People born before 1964 tend to have been in their 20's and faced a world that encouraged them to take a job for reasons 1 and 2. The world today encourages people in their 20's to take a job for reasons 1 and 3. It's just that simple. Y'ers are no different than the earlier generations. It's the world that has changed. And I felt as thought the advice provided by the experts in parts I and IV did not understand this reality. I got the impression that they thought the Y'ers were supposed to sacrifice so the haves could continue to have dutiful employees that won't job hop. I would have liked the book so much more if the message had been that the have's were going to have to accommodate the Y'ers so the Y'ers could eventually start their own businesses and be successful entrepreneurs. 4 stars!Millennial Leaders: Success Stories from Today's Most Brilliant Generation & Leaders Overview
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