Monday, September 8th, 2008...10:55 am
GenY : individualists or decentralized people?
I often hear definitive judgment about millenials: they do not want to work anymore, they do not care about hierarchy,… Just have a look on today Daniel’s post. They would be individualist. As to me, they just balance their life another way.
First genY do not accept the same social codes. They do not want to be submitted to the social codes that were once useful to work together, go out together, spend holidays together, etc. They just refuse what was once the common rule. Does that mean they are selfish or that they does not want to work? GenY are more engaged in society and the world development than any former generation. They equally care about macro issue like environment, or simple human caring like a simple thank… Just see what bloggers gratitude means through Ari and Zac examples.
So what is the point! GenY is the first generation to be decentralized. That explains their difficulties with institutions and hierarchy. They do accept rich collaboration but not forever, just as long as it is rich or finder a richer one. Worse, they really can work with different people on different projects.
GenY changes the rules because their are the first to be decentralized.



3 Comments
September 9th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Part of the reason Gen Y is less committal to the workplace is that A)we grew up in an instant gratification society and B) we’ve watched companies lay off boomers just a few years from retirement with a complete disregard for a career-long commitment. If companies look to us as replaceable cogs, we’re just returning the sentiment with shorter stints at these companies.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:33 am
You are right. I am sure having seen our parents being fired by big companies have structured our relation to employment.
I also think gen Y is the first generation that can pretend being efficient without following traditional working codes, because they know their values, they do not feel isolated thanks to social media.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
There is a french author, Thierry Crouzet (for the french speekers), who wrote a book, called ‘le peuple des conneceurs’ “the connector people”.
I’m about to read it, it is about how our generation and particularly the YGen is changing the world a different way as our fathers did, because we are self-organized and don’t belive in pyramidal organisations.
The cover goes like that :
“They don’t vote,
they don’t study
they don’t work
but they are changing the world”
And the chapters are the fllowing:
”
1. Do not obey
2. do not vote
3. do not make laws
4. do not study
5. do not promise
6. do not demonstrate
7. do not complicate
8. do not work
9. do not rationalize
10. do not believe
11. do not die
12. do not provoque
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