Lauren Stiller Rikleen
You Raised Us – Now Work with Us
Millennials, Career Success, and Building Strong Workplace Teams
American Bar Association, 2014
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Are the millennials a generation of hope or a hopeless generation? Lauren Stiller Rikleen interviews millennials to provide an accurate portrait.
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Are millennials a generation of hope or a hopeless generation? Are they lazy slackers, selfless idealists, entitled jerks, entrepreneurial geniuses, clueless workers, energetic employees or some amalgam of all these archetypes? Millennials constitute the largest population of any generation in the US workforce and they provoke a churn of opinions and stereotypes. To create an accurate profile and offer employers valuable insights into millennials, intergenerational expert Lauren Stiller Rikleen conducted an elaborate, extensive, revealing survey of more than 1,000 millennials. She discovered their heartfelt views on a diverse range of topics, including ambition, work and identity. For insights into who the millennials really are, heed their own words as they discuss work, vocation, priorities, morals, dealing with their elders, confronting stereotypes, and more. Rikleen’s research will help every generation in the workplace – baby boomers, gen Xers and millennials themselves – collaborate and understand each other better. getAbstract recommends Rikleen’s thorough investigation of this influential generation to parents, professors, HR managers, entrepreneurs, and managers of businesses large and small.
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About the Author
Lauren Stiller Rikleen, president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership, is an attorney and a professional mediator. She also wrote Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law and she serves as Executive-in-Residence at the Boston College Center for Work & Family in the Carroll School of Management.
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