![]() ![]() ![]() My experience was hardly universal, but anecdotes from chain emails complaining about kids these days that your grandma sends aren't universal either, and that didn't stop Sinek from citing them like gospel. If any of my peers' parents were yelling at the school to make their kids look smarter, I certainly wasn't aware of it. ![]() Wait, was that an option? Weird, when I got bad grades, my parents just told me to study more. He also says that millennials got into honors classes and got top grades not by earning them, but because their parents complained to teachers. Sinek rattles off a bunch of generalizations about how millennials were constantly told they were special when growing up, as opposed to all those other generations who were told they were useless pieces of shit. Okay, then whose words are they? The words of someone who dedicated years to studying millennials academically? Or the words of some grumpy manager who's upset that his employees want a living wage? And how did someone else's words find their way into your mouth?Īlso, hey, please don't casually assume that my parents were terrible. The first cause of this problem is supposedly "failed parenting strategies," although Sinek says those aren't his own words. Sinek says millennials "confound" business leaders because they're unhappy in the workplace, despite being given a "purpose" and lots of free food, because millennials are apparently kindergartners settling in for snack time. So at the risk of being a sensitive, self-entitled snowflake, allow me to explore how this random middle-aged man didn't "perfectly explain" anything. But the larger issue is that his speech is vapid, full of baffling generalizations, and, frankly, a little insulting. It's suspicious that a man whose livelihood revolves around being paid to solve problems in the workplace is telling us that there's a big new problem in the workplace that needs to be solved. The speaker is Simon Sinek, who, among other things, is a "leadership consultant" and sells books and courses on how to make people work better. ![]()
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