Creative Class

Interesting piece by Richard Leyland over at Silicon.com. Leyland offers his thoughts on how members of Generation Y will change the way we work and how managers should ‘manage’ this talent cohort. He looks at their skills, use of technology, and what will NOT work with them. From the column:

"You’ve seen them hunched over a PC, performing bewildering tasks at breakneck speed. You’ve watched with suspicion as they created an online community of friends, blurring the boundaries between ‘real’ friends and those they may never meet.

You took note when MySpace, their chief playground, was sold to Rupert Murdoch for about half a billion dollars.

Now the killer – today’s tech-savvy young people are the office and boardroom faces of tomorrow. We need to understand them and change, if we’re to create an environment where they can thrive.

So here’s what I know about them…"

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