This is a repost from my April 22 column for Internet Evolution. It makes a nice overture for my work-in-progress, Young World Rising. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...

My friend, colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece in Strategy + Business called ''Keeping up with Workforce 2020.'' In it, Dan looks at some of the major themes of the coming decade that managers should keep in mind, including moves toward the punctuated workday (where more people choose when, how and where they engage with work and ...

I just stumbled across a blog called NetGen Nonsense, dedicated to debunking the ''myth'' of digital natives - that is, the relationship between the Millennial generation and collaborative technology. As far as I can see, the site posts some useful contrarian research and attempts to refute some of the more mainstream popularizers of the NetGen ...

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If you can hear me over the wind, the ambient noise, and the occasional ambulance siren, here I am talking about ''Business School 2.0'' with interviewer Richard Collin of Grebnoble Ecole De Management at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Cliff Notes version: business schools should help NetGen students discover the business value in the ...

This brutal takedown of Mark Baurlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don't Trust Anyone Under Thirty over at the Huffington Post raises some good points about the perennial efforts of older generations to sound alarms about the insufficient learning, respect, and work ethic of ...

I've just started doing some research for my next project, a paper for nGenera on ''Blue Collar 2.0: How Next Generation Technology and NetGeneration Workers are Transforming Non-Knowledge Work Jobs and Industries,'' and I came across this great article from Fortune magazine from late last year. Writer Nadira Hira, who has written other ...

Microsoft and Insurity released a new study earlier this week on ''Millennials and Insurance,'' showing a strong relationship between the IT capabilities of an employer and the ability to recruit younger workers. This is an urgent issue for the insurance industry, which faces a shortage of new workers; 60 percent of its current employees ...

According to a new report on the political attitudes of the Millennial Generation called  The Progressive Generation: How Young Adults Think About the Economy: (link courtesy of MyDD) Millennials are more likely to support universal health coverage than any age group in the 30 previous years the question has been asked, with 57 percent of ...

(crossposted at the excellent career guidance site Brazen Careerist)  The terms ''tech-savvy'' and ''Millennial'' seem joined at the hip, like ''hopeless romantic'' or ''out-of-control pop diva.'' Of course, many romantics are nothing if not hopeful, some pop divas are models of good behavior, and not all Millennials are tech wizards - but ...