“We recently came across the following quote about the younger generation:

Because all the peoples of the world are part of one electronically based, intercommunicating network, young people everywhere share a kind of experience that none of the elders ever had. . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote these words in 1970. They are an important reminder that older generations often see stark differences between themselves and up-and-coming ones. We’re seeing that same pattern play out today: a barrage of articles and commentators has stamped today’s youth as “millennials”—workers who are said to be difficult to manage and likely to quit at a moment’s notice, and to make needless mistakes as they forge ahead blindly without permission.”

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