Understanding the Millennial Mind: A Menace or ... - Big Business Zoo

Chapter 23: The Bright Side
What possibilities for the world come
into reality if we embrace, enhance
and engage Human Being 2.0?
If we were to truly, comprehensively welcome
all of the myriad differences encompassed in
the Millennial divergence there would be a
cultural, economic and spiritual evolution on an
unprecedented scale.
Shifting the cultural norms for success from
money and status to relationship and experience
would require not just redefining but literally
reinventing the context for nearly every
human bond. Such a dynamic adaptation will
obviously take time, patience and understanding.
For example, accepting the notion that support
is a higher priority in a relationship than security,
and recognizing that travel may have
more value than titles, will require quantum
rethinking by older generations. While many
may never fully accept these notions, they can
still agree to respect them.
In the business world, conceding that the ability
to adapt is more crucial than the power to
control will bring cataclysmic but much-needed
change.
Where corporations once created the equivalent
of enormous, rigid multilane bridges into
a future that may or may not come into existence,
Millennials will build hundreds or even
thousands of rope bridges, tire swings and
catapults that are constantly creating access to
new relationships.
The leaders of this new economic era will be
distinguished by their ability to synthesize new
networks that leverage ideas and implement
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change faster than is currently imaginable.
Nowhere will the impact of the Millennial
divergence be more apparent than in the
world of education. The shift from content
to context-driven learning will redefine what
teacher, classroom and curriculum mean in
the most fundamental and important ways.
Computer and video game-based learning
will allow each student to advance at a rate
that both preserves confidence and assures
mastery.