Bosses the world over are struggling with their millennial employees – they say we confound leadership, are self-entitled, narcissistic, lazy and tough to manage.

But according to motivational speaker and author Simon Sinek, this is the result of our parents’ “failed parenting strategies.”

After the astounding success of his video on millennials in the workplace, which has had over 56 million views on Facebook alone, Sinek spoke to The Independent about how our parenting, combined with social media, working environments and our impatience have created a generation plagued by low self-esteem, and what we can do about it… More at The Independent.

Fascinating stuff and possibly true with lots of viewpoints in the above article to make you think. However, we do have a habit of presuming that how things (and generations) have been in the past was right and that everything today is somehow worse.

I could point to previous generations as having little understanding of the stresses children and young adults deal with today, little understanding of what it is like to work ‘really’ hard in a non-physical way and having a general poor perception of the people who follow next.

No generation is better than any other, they just live in different times.

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