We baby boomers have lost too many cultural icons. Don’t take away Woodstock.
Some nut shot John Lennon. Good journalism — or was it reality? — took away our faith in institutions. We’ve pretty much lost Ford, Chevrolet, General Motors, Wall Street, faith in television news, trust in doctors, air, water … hell, they even took [...]
I’m not buying all the generalizations about generation Y, also called millennials, echo boomers, and the trophy generation. They’re getting through college and into the work force. I’ve seen the book The Dumbest Generation. I’ve seen the ads for special corporate trainings on how to deal with them. And I don’t like it.
Generation generalizations can [...]
1. The early hires have huge impact.
Just do the math. Think about how much more a single person affects company culture in a company of one, two, three, or four people, compared to a company of several hundred.
2. Building by shedding jobs
We’ve used the shedding jobs strategy as we built from a one-person-do-everything business to [...]