At my gym last week, I saw an extraordinary scene. A man was working out on a stationary bicycle, reading – a book! Not your ordinary bestseller taken from the rack at a Wal-Mart but an old book, with small script and thin paper. I stopped short of congratulating him for being a survivor of a dying species.
Those kids today... you may be the parent of a teenager and wondering what you've gotten yourself into. But do you have it worse than parents of the past? We all know that kids will be kids, but how much do they change over the course of a generation?
The typical teenager in the early 1980s was rocking a Walkman and had just seen E.T. Today's average kid? He has a cellphone in his pocket, he listens to Rihanna, he's less likely to finish high school and he's more likely to practice safe sex.
Right, let’s get the boring but easy stuff out the way first. Lorem Ipsum is placeholder text. It’s been around as long as Keith Richards habit and like it or not, it is essential to what you as a designer do…… or is it?
If you are just getting started in web design, Lorem Ipsum is the filler text you will be seeing as people populate their genius ideas and need text to fill in the gaps. You will discover later however that it soon becomes the awful proof that your client is a lazy so and so who refuses to pull their finger out and give you copy they promised…….. but I digress.
Here’s our latest infographic which highlights nine entrepreneurs who became millionaires before they turned 30. Mark Zuckerberg, who at age 27 has an estimated personal net worth of $17.5 billion, tops the list, followed by Groupon founder Andrew Mason ($1.3 billion) and Firefox founder Blake Ross ($150 million).
A new report out from Sitel on social media and consumer trends implies that social media is key to reaching Gen Y (those born between 1980 and 2000), but the numbers don't add up. While the Gen Y, or people born between 1980-2000, are in fact "digital natives," that doesn't mean they are actually most reachable via social media marketing.
Today's 20-somethings have a reputation for being demanding and ignorant to power structures. And to a certain extent, these things might be true.
But the fact is, you're going to have to bring millennials into your office sooner or later. Their attitudes about life and work are different than the generations that precede them (and what you're probably used to), but a fresh perspective can invigorate your office and inspire growth. It's possible you can even learn a thing or two from the youngest set of the workforce.
So what do you need to know about this generation and how to deal with it at work? Here are the important points.
