Uploaded April 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A video I've waited a long time to do, and one most leaders need to see...
Transcript:
Hey there everybody, Cameron Morrissey here. I decided to do this video live just because it was a little different format. I did a poll yesterday and I'm sadly not surprised by the responses that I got from it. The poll was simply, millennials are the blank generation of workers yet. We had a few different choices. We had the most talented generation of workers yet. We had the laziest generation of workers yet. We had the most entitled generation of workers yet. And we had the most misunderstood. It didn't surprise me, but over 60% of the respondents, over 15,000 people viewed this poll, but 60% of the respondents said that, "Millennials are the laziest or most entitled generation yet." I'm going to give everybody some tough love here because it's something I've been thinking about for a long time and I've tackled it piecemeal with certain videos, but I really wanted to just kind of dive right into it and hit you with the tough message that you need out there, all right. Personally, I believe that millennials are the most talented generation to come along yet. Certainly the most talented as far as the current market place is concerned. They grew up in it. Every generation is going to have that leg up in the current environment over prior generations, but most importantly, and if I had to answer that poll, I would have said that they are the most misunderstood generation of workers yet. Or more to the point, existing leadership doesn't understand how to manage them and instead of trying to figure it out, they slap labels on them and start lumping them all together, all right. There's a lot of things that bother me about this particular issue, so I'll try to stay on point, but I think it's grossly unfair that your experience with one millennial or several millennials, all of a sudden means that you start making sweeping generalizations about an entire generation of workers. That is lazy thinking, that is lazy behavior. There's plenty of kids that I grew up with in high school that are lazy, unmotivated, and entitled losers. There's just as many that are smarter than me, more successful than me, but neither one of those groups has any bearing on me as a worker. Stop making those generalizations all right. For those of you that say every millennial that stepped into your organization has not worked out and has demonstrated that same behavior, well I might say that you might have an issue with hiring. Maybe you're not as good at hiring people as you think you are or maybe you're not as good at leading them, but I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself. I wanted to get back to misunderstanding, all right. Here's the thing, every generation thinks that the generation that follows has it easier than them. There's an article in Fortune Magazine that warned that the group of 20 somethings that are taking over the workplace are more prone to job hopping and more prone to having their ego bruised than any generation prior. Now that sounds familiar, we see those articles all the time. We see this on Facebook all the time. The thing is, that article was in Fortune Magazine in 1969. These are not new issues that we have. Generationally there's always going to be a misunderstanding because we have brought up differently.
A video I've waited a long time to do, and one most leaders need to see...
Transcript:
Hey there everybody, Cameron Morrissey here. I decided to do this video live just because it was a little different format. I did a poll yesterday and I'm sadly not surprised by the responses that I got from it. The poll was simply, millennials are the blank generation of workers yet. We had a few different choices. We had the most talented generation of workers yet. We had the laziest generation of workers yet. We had the most entitled generation of workers yet. And we had the most misunderstood. It didn't surprise me, but over 60% of the respondents, over 15,000 people viewed this poll, but 60% of the respondents said that, "Millennials are the laziest or most entitled generation yet." I'm going to give everybody some tough love here because it's something I've been thinking about for a long time and I've tackled it piecemeal with certain videos, but I really wanted to just kind of dive right into it and hit you with the tough message that you need out there, all right. Personally, I believe that millennials are the most talented generation to come along yet. Certainly the most talented as far as the current market place is concerned. They grew up in it. Every generation is going to have that leg up in the current environment over prior generations, but most importantly, and if I had to answer that poll, I would have said that they are the most misunderstood generation of workers yet. Or more to the point, existing leadership doesn't understand how to manage them and instead of trying to figure it out, they slap labels on them and start lumping them all together, all right. There's a lot of things that bother me about this particular issue, so I'll try to stay on point, but I think it's grossly unfair that your experience with one millennial or several millennials, all of a sudden means that you start making sweeping generalizations about an entire generation of workers. That is lazy thinking, that is lazy behavior. There's plenty of kids that I grew up with in high school that are lazy, unmotivated, and entitled losers. There's just as many that are smarter than me, more successful than me, but neither one of those groups has any bearing on me as a worker. Stop making those generalizations all right. For those of you that say every millennial that stepped into your organization has not worked out and has demonstrated that same behavior, well I might say that you might have an issue with hiring. Maybe you're not as good at hiring people as you think you are or maybe you're not as good at leading them, but I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself. I wanted to get back to misunderstanding, all right. Here's the thing, every generation thinks that the generation that follows has it easier than them. There's an article in Fortune Magazine that warned that the group of 20 somethings that are taking over the workplace are more prone to job hopping and more prone to having their ego bruised than any generation prior. Now that sounds familiar, we see those articles all the time. We see this on Facebook all the time. The thing is, that article was in Fortune Magazine in 1969. These are not new issues that we have. Generationally there's always going to be a misunderstanding because we have brought up differently.
