Bravo Matt Maroon! Bravo! That was the PERFECT rebuttle to the WSJ article in every way, strong, accurate and pointed. I felt great reading this, every sentence or two I found myself nodding my head in agreement.
Yeah, the article has too much self congratulation. I do think matt's right about our capabilities, but the whole attitude doesn't help things. We need to keep our ambition and drive, but drop the sense that people need to bow to our whims. It is much more effective to learn our work environments and how the system works, and work that to our advantage.
In short, both generations make the same mistake. Both treat their management like parents, and are dependent on them. Consequently, they both use children's strategies to get their way. One goes the goody two shoes route and the other goes the pouty route.
Same here. Amazingly well written post.
A experience for myself was that I could relate so closely to the post and the sentiments even though I sit here in India.
My parents who fall into the majority middle class educated white collar segment have toiled their 35+ years of work experience hoping for a rosy day, which they would have never seen if we, trophy kids had not changed our attitude and ambition.
PS: Even here miles apart our parents dealt with us - trophy kids - in the exact same way described on wsj - lot of appraisals & proud moments, challenging higher achievement all through.
Another interesting connection I do feel is the outsourcing mundane tasks to India part, though it happens in-house or the company next door. Which implies in India there is a gray segment of the generations that exists.
