{"id":137,"date":"2012-11-06T05:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaderperfect.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2025-06-27T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:01:39","slug":"leading-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaderperfect.com\/blog\/leadership\/leading-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership and Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the November 2012 issue of Inc Magazine<\/em> Jeremy Quittner offers an intriguing summary of strategies that companies are using successfully to engage and motivate Millennials.<\/span><\/p>\n

This generation of workers prefers electronic communication \u2014 email, instant messaging, and video or web conferencing \u2014 over face-to-face meetings. They also are reluctant to embrace organizations built around traditional, hierarchical management. Instead, they are best motivated in collaborative settings with a minimum of bureaucracy and management overhead.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is leading many forward-thinking companies to experiment with alternative leadership styles. Among the more interesting approaches that Quittner mentions is one “in which leaders emerge on a project-by-project basis, according to their particular strengths and experiences.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Borrowing Leadership Lessons from Special Forces Operations<\/span><\/h2>\n

Interestingly, this approach has an established history in military special forces communities, where the nature of a particular mission determines which member of the team should lead. Such a fluid concept of leadership stands in marked contrast to typical military leadership philosophy, where the person with the highest rank is by default the leader.k<\/span><\/p>\n

Quittner does not draw a parallel with the military. But the approach he is recommending has proven its viability and effectiveness in the challenging arena of special forces leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n

Very thought-provoking ideas. You can see the full article online at Inc.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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