postmodern management 2014 - based on our forthcoming book, about leading millennials
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A presentation based on Margaret Snell and my forthcoming book on Working With Under 33s The Way They Want To be Worked With. Rather than using survey data, as almost all books on the Millennials do we look at from the perspective of the worldview they are taught, Postmodernism. We include six managerial implications for leading this generationTRANSCRIPT
PostModern People: Leading, Managing Working With Under 35s The Way They Want To Be Worked With
Professor Karl MooreAssociate Professor, Desautels Faculty of ManagementAssociate Professor Dept. of Neurology & NeurosurgeryMcGill University Associate Fellow, Green Templeton CollegeOxford University
PostModern Management: Leading, Managing Working With Under 35s The Way They Want To Be Worked With
Research Base
+ 250 interviews with C Suite Executives in North America, Europe and Asia
Sir Richard Branson, Calin Rovinescu, Dick Evans, Pierre Beaudoin, Robert Brown, Michael Sabia, Robert Dutton, Moya Greene, Kevin Lynch, Pierre Lortie, Robert Milton, Arthur Porter, Mike Roach, Paul Tellier, Caryn Lerner, Robert Rabinovitch, Andre Navarra, Sheila Fraser, etc..
+ Co-teaching a MBA course, Role of the CEO with Zoe Yujnovich, CEO of Iron Ore Company of Canada
+ 500 interviews with under 35s in the Canada, the U.S., Japan and Europe
A Global Concern
Fewer hands make heavy work
Anything New?
Three to Four Generations working together
Age doesn’t mean you run things
More significant differences in attitudes to life and work
Humans by EraAverage Lifespan at Birth
(years)Comment
Upper Paleolithic 33 At age 15: 39 (to age 54)[6][7]
Neolithic 20 Bronze Age[8] 18
Bronze age, Sweden[9] 40-60
Classical Greece[10] 20-30
Classical Rome[11] 20-30 Pre-Columbian North America[12] 25-35
Medieval Islamic Caliphate[13] 35+
The average lifespans of the elite class were 59–84.3 years in the Middle East[14][15] and 69–75 in Islamic Spain.[16]
Medieval Britain[17][18] 20-30
Early 20th Century[19][20] 30-40
Current world average[21][22] 70 (2008 est.)
Defining Events1930s: Great Depression Election of King1940s: Pearl Harbour
D-DayVE Day and VJ DayAtomic Bomb
1950s: Korean WarTV in every homeRock and Roll
1960s: VietnamKennedy Moon Landing
1970s: Oil CrisisWatergateFirst PCs
1980s: Fall of Berlin WallMulroney, Thatcher and
Regan1990s: War in Iraq
Death of DianaClinton Scandals
2000s: September 11th
War in Iraq reduxBlackberry
Cohorts & The Rise of Post Modern Era
From the Roman Army
“People resemble their times more than their parents”
Events define us
A generation is composed of people whose common location in history lends them a collective persona
Source: Adapted from Generations at Work, Zemke, et al, 2000
Modern
Post Modern
Why Do We Care?
Generational clashes can mean less success in motivating and retaining our staff
A key issue for the next decade
The Modern Viewpoint
People over 45 are Moderns, mainly
Faith in Science to bring us to a bright future
We can KNOW thanks to the scientific method
Relentless Upward Progress
Many modernists believed that by rejecting tradition they could discover radically newways of making art, architecture, etc..
Science Base of Postmodernism
New sciences shift worldviews from modern to postmodernquantum mechanics (1900-1927)chaos (complexity) theory andself organization (autopoiesis) in
the 1970spunctuated equilibrium (1970s)
Less Truth than there use to be, more truth than there use to be
A decline in hierarchy From the Individual to Community Five years ago is somewhat out of date, 10 years
quite out of dateA sense of things beyond science and analysis –
emotions! The search for meaning and purpose
Some Central Aspects of thePost Modern Worldview
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2. The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation Seek Diversity and Embrace It
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2. The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3. The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”Go With the Flow
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2. The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3. The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”Go With the Flow
4. A Renewed Need For Purpose Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2. The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3. The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”Go With the Flow
4. A Renewed Need For Purpose Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
5. Rethink the Meaning of Career and Work/Life Balance Lose the Blackberry – At Least on the Weekend
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2. The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3. The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”Go With the Flow
4. A Renewed Need For Purpose Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
5. Rethink the Meaning of Career and Work/Life Balance Lose the Blackberry – At Least on the Weekend
Working With/Reaching Post Moderns
1. Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2. The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3. The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”Go With the Flow
4. A Renewed Need For Purpose Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
5. Rethink the Meaning of Career and Work/Life Balance Lose the Blackberry – At Least on the Weekend
6. Feedback