The demand for Gen-Y skills are set to outstrip supply in the next 15 years. The organizations that learn to work with the Gen-Y will have a market lead in attracting the brightest and the best.
In 2007, Fortune characterized Gen-Y as: "self-absorbed, gregarious, multitasking, loud [and] optimistic....exactly what the boomers raised them to be."
If this is so, being perceived as upstarts won't inspire commitment among this generation who, more than any other in history, feels that the world really is their oyster?
More fruitful would be to deem them as self-assured rather than 'self-absorbed'; or vocal instead of 'loud'?
Of course, it will mean standing outside of the prevailing view but what impact will such a shift in thinking have to the quality of relationships between Gen-Y and the Boomer generation of leaders?
No doubt it will feel awkward to begin with but get it right with the first Gen-Y leaders and the others will want to follow.
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