There's a great scene in Band of Brothers, where a veteran non-com is showing the young privates about to do a combat jump to hold onto their rifles instead of attaching them to their gear. "be ready to fight when you land or die" is what he tells them.
The non-com gained that experience first hand after his first own jump and his rifle was lost in the prop wash.
I wonder how a Gen-Y would have reacted to that...
The article doesn't suggest that Generation Y won't listen to good ideas that come from the experienced. Rather, it says that they expect all ideas to be considered based on their merits, not their source.
There's also plenty of young people who expect everyone to listen to them because of their vast entitlement complex, not necessarily out of some meritocratic ideal. I've had 10 year olds give me dirty looks because I didn't entertain their idea of what we should do at my kid's birthday party and I've had 25 year olds with the same look on their face at work.
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There's a great scene in Band of Brothers, where a veteran non-com is showing the young privates about to do a combat jump to hold onto their rifles instead of attaching them to their gear. "be ready to fight when you land or die" is what he tells them. The non-com gained that experience first hand after his first own jump and his rifle was lost in the prop wash.
I wonder how a Gen-Y would have reacted to that...
The article doesn't suggest that Generation Y won't listen to good ideas that come from the experienced. Rather, it says that they expect all ideas to be considered based on their merits, not their source.
There's also plenty of young people who expect everyone to listen to them because of their vast entitlement complex, not necessarily out of some meritocratic ideal. I've had 10 year olds give me dirty looks because I didn't entertain their idea of what we should do at my kid's birthday party and I've had 25 year olds with the same look on their face at work.