Millennial Spring

A volume in LMX Leadership: The SeriesSeries Editor George B. Graen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Retired)Our corporate dominated world is resisting the best efforts of the under 30s toshape it into the information age. This eBook contains information about whatthe careers of the under 30s corporation will become. This was done examiningrecent trends in careers of growing-tip companies like Apple BoeingMicrosoft and US and international design schools.The world of careers is changing fast and the millennials - the generation ofpeople who became adults around 2000 or in the decade or so after - have been right in the middle of it. FromIndependence Square in Kyiv to the streets of Caracas from Taksim Square in Istanbul to Zuccoti Park in NewYork and from Silicon Valley to Wall Street it's the 30-and-under crowd courageously leading the quest for differentways. Less invested in past approaches tech-savvy to a fault and painfully aware of the challenges left tothem by earlier generations they're not willing to settle - to make the same compromises (and mistakes) theythink their parents made. And although they sometimes get rapped for being self-centered all the evidence I see- and I've taught thousands of them on two continents and even have one in my own family -- suggests that themillennials represent real hope for the future. Please consider this a call to all millennials - here in the pages ofthis book are some of the means. Get out there and create the under-30s revolution. Solve the problems your parentscouldn't. Do it together with a conscientious eye to what works for all involved. Get out there and save theworld.