With a mixture of humor, common sense, and lots of solid management experience from his IBM days, Charles Herrick provides a completely different perspective and set of solutions for managing in the Millennial era. It's a subject he knows well since the tech firm he is now building has a 100% Millennial workforce. The key is to understand how wrong the personnel practices are that were established over the last 200 years and then do some counterintuitive things to get it right. The result will be a working environment that ...
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With a mixture of humor, common sense, and lots of solid management experience from his IBM days, Charles Herrick provides a completely different perspective and set of solutions for managing in the Millennial era. It's a subject he knows well since the tech firm he is now building has a 100% Millennial workforce. The key is to understand how wrong the personnel practices are that were established over the last 200 years and then do some counterintuitive things to get it right. The result will be a working environment that fits with our tribal instincts about basic human fairness in a social setting. There is a chapter and some additional insights offered on Women that may cause people to take a whole different view of this underutilized resource - a talent pool which, despite the current narrative that says the genders are all but identical, can bring some hidden power, not to mention a harmonizing element to your company. This book makes a great companion read to his other important management book A Guide to Managing Earthlings, now used by a number of large companies to guide their management and executive practices. The book is worth reading just for the footnotes. But taken in a wholistic approach, it's worth rereading a couple of times, just to get the overall sense of how things should be and the many ways we have open to us to get it right for the first time in centuries. We can all benefit from a more enlightened approach and a better working environment. It's not just for the younger generation. The thinking they have introduced to our workplace since about 2006 is now catching on. This book is for every generation because we're in this together. It turns out that We're All Millennials on This Bus.
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