The Trophy Kids Grow Up, Ron Alsop
The Trophy Kids Grow Up, Ron Alsop
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The Trophy Kids Grow Up
How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workplace

Author: Ron Alsop

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/06/2008


Synopsis

The first wave of the Millennial Generation—born between the early 1980s and 2002—is just graduating from college and entering the work force. Employers, meantime, are bracing for some of the biggest management challenges they’ve ever faced: Integrating the most demanding and most protected generation in history into a workplace shaped by the driven baby-boom generation. Like them or not, millennials are America’s future work force. They are actually a larger group than the boomers—about 80 million vs. 76 million.

The millennials are a complex group—although they’re hard-working achievers, most millennials don’t excel at leadership and independent problem solving. They want the freedom and flexibility of a virtual office but they also want rules and responsibilities t be spelled out explicitly. “It’s all about me,” might seem to be the mantra of this demanding bunch of young people, yet they also tend to be very civic-minded and philanthropic.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marci

While this book is an over generalization (but so is the descriptions of previous generations)....there will always be an over generalization when you are trying to talk about literally tens of millions of people. I think that the shortcomings of this book is that I think it describes the wealthy/up......more

Goodreads review by Stacy

I teach college students so this book was especially interesting to me. I found a lot of what Alsop wrote about to be very true to the students I see. The chapters relating to their relationships with their parents, addiction to technology and "great expectations" to be particularly spot-on. I have......more