Reaction to: Simon-Sinek-on-Millennials-in-the-Workplace

Simon-Sinek-on-Millennials-in-the-Workplace

Many good points are mentioned by Simon Sinek in his speech on Millennials.

He sums the issues of this generation in four categories:  

Parenting

Technology

Impatience

Environment

The speaker gets additional considerations for delineating the problem in distinct categories and including the environment.

There some psychobabble, which makes it seem like adjoining a variety of points of view in some sequential manner. In that sense he lacks depth in some regards as to getting to the roots of some of the issues he exposed so well.

Simon concludes with an interesting point, which is pointing at the corporations for letting the Millennials down and he also lets them off the hook Scot free. “I am here to tell them it’s not their fault, it’s not on them. It’s the corporate environment, it’s the companies responsibilities, it’s bad leadership”. At approx. 11.40

I would add that these are simply natural reactionary stages of expanding energy of the American society. Based on the exemplifications of capitalism with generous garnishing of mercantilism, capital gain has been and remain the fundamental motivation at the expense of all else.

He could be right that teachers fears parents complaining and for that reason promote students through their classrooms without much of a selective process; all are doing so well…

That is more of an administrative issue, school districts and administrations decide how they want teachers to teach according to their standards and criteria. Subsequently, they will defend a teacher who is functioning within their determined limits, and that is important in a most litigious country. The problem is bigger.

Impatience is part of human nature, I am not sure that can be pinned only on a particular generation. Definitely a fast paced society means impatience at every corner.

And, yes it’s the fault of the corporation. But the corporations are set up to reflect the capitalistic model. According this model to this day there can’t be a consensus on universal health care, because even the right to healthcare must also be competitive. This is the opposite in all other developed nations where both parents can stay for months with their new born baby.

In a society where the citizens’ “souls” are traded for empty trinkets, where kids can barely be afforded time with parents, and where couples are too busy to become an actual family; the blame might be too obvious to denote. And, other aspects of the lifestyle including diets also influence.

Another important aspect that is never mentioned in conjunction to this problem is the high rate of divorce. It is farcical to expect normal balanced individual behavior to be the norm in a region of the world where the divorce rate is among the highest in the world, the other two contenders being circumstantially abnormal.

Even though multitudes are ready to lose their current life in the process of coming over for a better one, a yogi ought to be aware of the pitfalls. For all the lures, a yogi might heed that such birth can imply a concept of liberation that might be even further elusive than in previous lives.