“What’s good for General Motors is good for the Country”, Charles Wilson President of General Motors, 1941-1953
GM at $11 a share is a shock to many in the business world.
It hasn’t been that low in over sixty years.
Oil is hitting over $140 a Barrel.
Floods in the Midwest are killing our planting season in the corn commodity and soy beans thus driving up food costs for the consumers.
What are we, the American Consumer to do?
We do what we’ve always done, we buckle down and try to live within out new means.
That means, forget about the big vacation this year, take the money you were going to spend and maybe put it in something else. If you want to gamble in investments, think of putting it in Gold. As oil goes up and the economy continues to tank, Gold will be going up.
Save your money for the fall when gas will be hitting $150 a barrel and possibly $200 by Christmas.
We can sit here and talk about why this is happening till we’re blue in the face. The bottom line is that we have entered a new world and in this new world there are new rules.
Congressional leaders want to go and sue oil speculators or go and sue the Arab Oil Producers to produce more. That’s just a sign of complete frustration and impotence.
We are in a Bear Market, which means that investors are sitting on the sideline and not wanting to buy stock.
We are in an oil shortage market, there’s not enough oil (supply) to go around to the market places that are calling for it (demand).
We are in a Global Economy that means your competition is no longer the guy down the street or in another town it’s the guy in India, China, Brazil, Russia and Eastern Europe.
This is not the time to roll the wagons into a circle and get ready for the attack that will be coming.
This is the time to have bold new leadership with new ideas.
Congress and our Political Leaders are looking at all that is happening with 20th Century eye balls. That’s like looking at the industrial revolution through the eyes of the Bronze Age.
This is the 21st Century, we won the Cold War between Democracy and Communism, not only where they Political Ideologies but also Economic.
What we have now is the result of these two ideologies finding common ground and evolving into something new.
We are in a Global Economy more dependent on each other than at any other time in the History of Humanity.
We are pulling the Chinese away from Communism one consumer at a time.
Over 1,000 new cars are bought in Beijing in one week.
That’s over 1,000,000 new cars in all of China a month.
So, what you really have to ask is how with that kind of market potential can General Motors one of the leading car manufacture’s in the World can have its stock price down at $11?
Because it is still in the 20th Century mind set.
GM is still competing against Chrysler and Ford and maybe every now and then they think about Toyota.
GM is the company that makes the Hummer, the biggest car and biggest gas guzzler on the road.
That’s why its stock is at $11.
What’s good for General Motors is good for the Country?
Let’s hope not.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
IS IT TOO LATE?
Inflation is growing in China and it’s spreading through the world.
Oil is going through the roof and the Saudi’s are blaming speculators.
Pension plans that have invested in the energy arena, such as oil are booming making billions for their plan members.
The problems that affect one area of the Global Economy is affecting all the areas of the Economy.
Is the Global Economy to blame for the problem?
Is it too late to cut off the Global Economy from our shores?
Some congressmen think it’s not too late. We can put the Genie back in the bottle.
These same congressional leaders think that it might not be too late to send Columbus and his three ships packing back to Europe before they ruin things here.
Reality, what a concept.
I cannot believe the remarks that are being made by supposedly American Government Leaders.
They all seem to be heavily informed by those crazy Emails that come through every day in the Internet.
You know the one’s that talk about Obama making a secret pact with Muslim Extremist to take over the U.S. after the election and convert into a Muslim Country.Then there’s the one about John McCain being the actual Manchurian Candidate, brainwashed in Vietnam to become President of the U.S. so China can take us over.
Then there’s the one about the Global Economy is a plot against the U.S. to destroy its industrial capabilities and smash it into small regional countries like Europe.
You want proof?
Imagine American Beer Icon, Budweiser being owned by a foreign company?
The Global Economy has been good for the United States. Our Companies are leaders in the Global Market. We have a situation with Oil right now and its driving up everything else because of its transformational needs. But if you look at one of the major reasons we have this problem, you have to put the blame on the U.S. Congress who have been sabotaging MPG’s ratings in our cars since the 1960’s.
Gas at $5 or higher is good for us in the long run. It will force Americans to conserve and it will force our leadership to look in another direction and off shore drilling is not the answer. We have to get off of oil as much as possible and let the Saudi’s and others go back to counting sand grains.
Our problem is not the Global Economy; our problem is Leadership or rather the lack of it in this country.
You see these poor people in Ohio and the old rust belt area, they’re out of work and times are hard. Our Leaders answer is that we need to bring these jobs back to the country. Hey, wake up they left because they couldn’t compete. Bring back what? Have any of our ‘brilliant’ congressmen ever thought about the Billions that would have to be spent to bring up to date machinery that would make business competitive and also the Billions that would have to be spent on environmental control of the new machinery.
Have they forgotten the pollution that was caused in the old Rust Belt area?
You want to have competitive Global Jobs in those areas then let’s upgrade.
No not the machinery the people.
College expenses should be a complete write off to all American Citizens who want to improve their lives and in the long run the economy of the country.
We start letting Americans have the opportunity to learn and grow and you’ll find that $300 Million Dollar battery that John McCain is talking about a lot faster.
It’s way too late the put the Genie in the bottle. We are in a Global Economy and we need to be able to compete.
So, tell Congress, let us compete and keep your hands off.
Oil is going through the roof and the Saudi’s are blaming speculators.
Pension plans that have invested in the energy arena, such as oil are booming making billions for their plan members.
The problems that affect one area of the Global Economy is affecting all the areas of the Economy.
Is the Global Economy to blame for the problem?
Is it too late to cut off the Global Economy from our shores?
Some congressmen think it’s not too late. We can put the Genie back in the bottle.
These same congressional leaders think that it might not be too late to send Columbus and his three ships packing back to Europe before they ruin things here.
Reality, what a concept.
I cannot believe the remarks that are being made by supposedly American Government Leaders.
They all seem to be heavily informed by those crazy Emails that come through every day in the Internet.
You know the one’s that talk about Obama making a secret pact with Muslim Extremist to take over the U.S. after the election and convert into a Muslim Country.Then there’s the one about John McCain being the actual Manchurian Candidate, brainwashed in Vietnam to become President of the U.S. so China can take us over.
Then there’s the one about the Global Economy is a plot against the U.S. to destroy its industrial capabilities and smash it into small regional countries like Europe.
You want proof?
Imagine American Beer Icon, Budweiser being owned by a foreign company?
The Global Economy has been good for the United States. Our Companies are leaders in the Global Market. We have a situation with Oil right now and its driving up everything else because of its transformational needs. But if you look at one of the major reasons we have this problem, you have to put the blame on the U.S. Congress who have been sabotaging MPG’s ratings in our cars since the 1960’s.
Gas at $5 or higher is good for us in the long run. It will force Americans to conserve and it will force our leadership to look in another direction and off shore drilling is not the answer. We have to get off of oil as much as possible and let the Saudi’s and others go back to counting sand grains.
Our problem is not the Global Economy; our problem is Leadership or rather the lack of it in this country.
You see these poor people in Ohio and the old rust belt area, they’re out of work and times are hard. Our Leaders answer is that we need to bring these jobs back to the country. Hey, wake up they left because they couldn’t compete. Bring back what? Have any of our ‘brilliant’ congressmen ever thought about the Billions that would have to be spent to bring up to date machinery that would make business competitive and also the Billions that would have to be spent on environmental control of the new machinery.
Have they forgotten the pollution that was caused in the old Rust Belt area?
You want to have competitive Global Jobs in those areas then let’s upgrade.
No not the machinery the people.
College expenses should be a complete write off to all American Citizens who want to improve their lives and in the long run the economy of the country.
We start letting Americans have the opportunity to learn and grow and you’ll find that $300 Million Dollar battery that John McCain is talking about a lot faster.
It’s way too late the put the Genie in the bottle. We are in a Global Economy and we need to be able to compete.
So, tell Congress, let us compete and keep your hands off.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Floods In The Midwest
We look at the pictures on the TV of the new floods out in the Midwest.
We feel sorry for those people going through such a natural disaster as that.
We, being Floridians, know about nature and the disaster sit can bring.
Every year we face the Hurricane Season and pray, ‘Anywhere but here, Lord’ but when it hits us like Andrew, Wilma, George and so forth, we come together and help our neighbors or we thank them for helping us. I survived Andrew down in Miami, only had one broken window, my cousin on the other hand had his house collapse on him and his family. Thank God for a strong dining room table that they were able to get under when the roof blew away.
We see these poor people in Iowa and other places and we identify with them. We feel sorry that they are losing so much. Yet, at the same time, we are also loosing.
Iowa and most of the Midwest area that we see on TV are one of the main producers of corn and soybean in this country.
Yeah, that famous corn that they want to turn into bio-fuel and not give it to the animals that we need for our diet which means that the cost of feeding those animals is doubling.
Our corn and soybean crops are going to be hurting this fall. Food prices will probably continue to go up as if we didn’t know that all ready.
What we need to ask is not, how did this happen but what are we going to do to eliminate this from happening again?
Are there things that the State’s that have been affected can do something to eliminate such flooding from destroying property again?
They call this the worse flood in five hundred years, so it has happened again, it happened in the 1990’S and now in 2008.
Look at Katrina in New Orleans it was a horrible disaster that could have been avoided.
What is being done now to avoid the disaster of the next Katrina?
We are supposed to have leadership in government, instead we have people who don’t want to rock the boat but are looking for a way to get re-elected and stay in the nice cushy jobs they have.
Wake up America!!
Something is happening in our country and we are just sitting back and letting it happen.
It’s time to ask yourself can something be done to fix this?
We feel sorry for those people going through such a natural disaster as that.
We, being Floridians, know about nature and the disaster sit can bring.
Every year we face the Hurricane Season and pray, ‘Anywhere but here, Lord’ but when it hits us like Andrew, Wilma, George and so forth, we come together and help our neighbors or we thank them for helping us. I survived Andrew down in Miami, only had one broken window, my cousin on the other hand had his house collapse on him and his family. Thank God for a strong dining room table that they were able to get under when the roof blew away.
We see these poor people in Iowa and other places and we identify with them. We feel sorry that they are losing so much. Yet, at the same time, we are also loosing.
Iowa and most of the Midwest area that we see on TV are one of the main producers of corn and soybean in this country.
Yeah, that famous corn that they want to turn into bio-fuel and not give it to the animals that we need for our diet which means that the cost of feeding those animals is doubling.
Our corn and soybean crops are going to be hurting this fall. Food prices will probably continue to go up as if we didn’t know that all ready.
What we need to ask is not, how did this happen but what are we going to do to eliminate this from happening again?
Are there things that the State’s that have been affected can do something to eliminate such flooding from destroying property again?
They call this the worse flood in five hundred years, so it has happened again, it happened in the 1990’S and now in 2008.
Look at Katrina in New Orleans it was a horrible disaster that could have been avoided.
What is being done now to avoid the disaster of the next Katrina?
We are supposed to have leadership in government, instead we have people who don’t want to rock the boat but are looking for a way to get re-elected and stay in the nice cushy jobs they have.
Wake up America!!
Something is happening in our country and we are just sitting back and letting it happen.
It’s time to ask yourself can something be done to fix this?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Are You And Your Company Ready For $5 A Gallon Of Gas?
Some experts are predicting $5 A Gallon by September or December of this year. They are predicting Oil at $150 a Barrel some are predicting $200 a Barrel.
What the hell is going on?
You’ve heard all the story, we’re running out of gas, the Chinese and Indian markets are buying cars and need gas for their millions of automobiles that are coming on line. Our SUVs are burning gas on the road by the tons.
Whatever reason you want to believe in, it doesn’t really matter to you. You’ve got to reach into your pocket and pay for that gas at the pump.
If you’re a small business person, it’s going to hurt your bottom line really bad.
What can you do?
You can do a lot and start you, your company and your employees get ready for it now.
First of all, do a little audit of your situation.
Do you have company vehicles?
How much of your sales depend on traveling to see your customers?
Do you have employees that travel more than thirteen miles to work?
What can you do?
Company Vehicles
Okay, let’s say you have five or more vehicles in your organization.
1. Consider putting computer systems into your vehicles in order to follow using GPS systems where your vehicles are going. This way you can keep and control where the vehicles are doing.
2. Plan out routes for your vehicles in order to save distance and gas usage. Planning the routes will show you the best and quickest way of getting to your customers and it will help you save on gas.
3. Make sure that your drivers are driving within the speed limit. Remember that any miles over the speed limit can burn needed car fuel. Keep it 55 or under and save fuel.
4. Control the drag on your company vehicles. Eliminate the drag if you’ve got pickups and other open vehicles make sure that the items they carry are not creating drag on the vehicle.
5. Keep your tires inflated to the right amount. It sounds corny but it works and helps you save.
Employees
You can help your employees by holding meetings and teaching them way of saving gas for their own vehicles.
1. You can teach them to keep their tires properly inflated. Again, it sounds corny but it works.
2. Car Pool. It’s simple and can be done immediately.
3. Teach Employees how to save gas in their driving methods. Keep the lead foot off the pedals and don’t hit the brakes too much.
4. Help them plan out their days. If they have errands to run before and after work, help them design the routes that will save them gas and waste.
5. Digitize your office. Can you have your employees do the same work from home by computers? If so think about going Digitizing your office. Help Employees set up offices at their homes. Assist them in getting the needed material; internet hook ups, computers, cameras and so forth.
6. Four Day Work Week. Cutting back the time that your employees need to drive to and from work will save them money and give them an extra day to accomplish other things.
These are just a few things that can be done to make that $5 a Gallon bite not be that big and help you and your employees survive.
You don’t need this to become a negative and possibly destroy your business and your employees.
You can continue to work and keep your employees surviving this new era that we are entering. This is not going to be just a few months and then poof! We go back to where we were before. We’re never going back. It’s a new era, a new life style.
We need our government and leaders to get into a new mindset when it comes to our fuel and energy sources.
Detroit needs to start changing its ways and develop cars that we need today that will get forty miles or more to the gallon.
You the small to medium size business person needs to adapt.
It’s just part of the new evolution in business.
You need to have an energy policy ready to go.
What the hell is going on?
You’ve heard all the story, we’re running out of gas, the Chinese and Indian markets are buying cars and need gas for their millions of automobiles that are coming on line. Our SUVs are burning gas on the road by the tons.
Whatever reason you want to believe in, it doesn’t really matter to you. You’ve got to reach into your pocket and pay for that gas at the pump.
If you’re a small business person, it’s going to hurt your bottom line really bad.
What can you do?
You can do a lot and start you, your company and your employees get ready for it now.
First of all, do a little audit of your situation.
Do you have company vehicles?
How much of your sales depend on traveling to see your customers?
Do you have employees that travel more than thirteen miles to work?
What can you do?
Company Vehicles
Okay, let’s say you have five or more vehicles in your organization.
1. Consider putting computer systems into your vehicles in order to follow using GPS systems where your vehicles are going. This way you can keep and control where the vehicles are doing.
2. Plan out routes for your vehicles in order to save distance and gas usage. Planning the routes will show you the best and quickest way of getting to your customers and it will help you save on gas.
3. Make sure that your drivers are driving within the speed limit. Remember that any miles over the speed limit can burn needed car fuel. Keep it 55 or under and save fuel.
4. Control the drag on your company vehicles. Eliminate the drag if you’ve got pickups and other open vehicles make sure that the items they carry are not creating drag on the vehicle.
5. Keep your tires inflated to the right amount. It sounds corny but it works and helps you save.
Employees
You can help your employees by holding meetings and teaching them way of saving gas for their own vehicles.
1. You can teach them to keep their tires properly inflated. Again, it sounds corny but it works.
2. Car Pool. It’s simple and can be done immediately.
3. Teach Employees how to save gas in their driving methods. Keep the lead foot off the pedals and don’t hit the brakes too much.
4. Help them plan out their days. If they have errands to run before and after work, help them design the routes that will save them gas and waste.
5. Digitize your office. Can you have your employees do the same work from home by computers? If so think about going Digitizing your office. Help Employees set up offices at their homes. Assist them in getting the needed material; internet hook ups, computers, cameras and so forth.
6. Four Day Work Week. Cutting back the time that your employees need to drive to and from work will save them money and give them an extra day to accomplish other things.
These are just a few things that can be done to make that $5 a Gallon bite not be that big and help you and your employees survive.
You don’t need this to become a negative and possibly destroy your business and your employees.
You can continue to work and keep your employees surviving this new era that we are entering. This is not going to be just a few months and then poof! We go back to where we were before. We’re never going back. It’s a new era, a new life style.
We need our government and leaders to get into a new mindset when it comes to our fuel and energy sources.
Detroit needs to start changing its ways and develop cars that we need today that will get forty miles or more to the gallon.
You the small to medium size business person needs to adapt.
It’s just part of the new evolution in business.
You need to have an energy policy ready to go.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Success
What is Success in your organization?
Is it meeting sales projections?
Selling a certain amount each and every month?
Meeting expected growth?
Success for corporations and for individuals could mean completely different things.
To an individual it might mean the things that he or she is able to get because of the money that they are receiving as a compensation for their work to their corporation.
Success to a corporation could be a certain percentage of the market that they have total control over or name recognition of their brand and product.
As the old saying goes, Success means many different things to many people.
Basically it boils down to what you as an individual think success is. What do you accept as success?
We need to look at our own deep personnel drives as to what success means to us. We need to see if it really is compensation that we want which means that products will be available to us or is there something more. Is it the ability to do what we want to do? To move in the direction that we feel we need to go into. To have possibilities and change available to us on our own timetable instead of being forced to react without any control or knowledge of the coming event.
Success can be a positive tool or it can be a destructive event.
There have been corporations that have been very successful, owning almost complete control of their markets only to be thwarted by outside market forces.
How about the original AT&T?
They had over 100% of the Market. They owned it all until consumers and the Federal Courts stepped in.
There are other companies that really do not want to hold too big a stake in the marketplace and are happy to be number two or even number three. They realize that number one is a target that everyone is hoping to knock down one day.
Let’s take a looks at Microsoft.
Today it’s considered the number one company in computer software. They’ve made their brand name Global. They like controlling certain areas of the markets and have knocked out competition by just letting the competitors think that Microsoft was going to enter their markets. It’s the big elephant that everyone can’t help but notice in the room.
There are a few other companies in the world that are like that. Most of them want to blend into the background, but they can’t help themselves. They’re big, the market knows it and that’s all there is to it.
The one’s to really worry about are the small and up and coming.
Why?
Because you really don’t know where they’re coming from and they might be coming from your little market niche, they’re hungry and willing to put it all out there for they really have nothing to lose but to be successful. It’s all or nothing for them.
Success is different for each company in the Global Market. You have to keep your eyes focused not only on what is ahead of you, but look over your shoulder and watch what’s coming up at you.
Is it meeting sales projections?
Selling a certain amount each and every month?
Meeting expected growth?
Success for corporations and for individuals could mean completely different things.
To an individual it might mean the things that he or she is able to get because of the money that they are receiving as a compensation for their work to their corporation.
Success to a corporation could be a certain percentage of the market that they have total control over or name recognition of their brand and product.
As the old saying goes, Success means many different things to many people.
Basically it boils down to what you as an individual think success is. What do you accept as success?
We need to look at our own deep personnel drives as to what success means to us. We need to see if it really is compensation that we want which means that products will be available to us or is there something more. Is it the ability to do what we want to do? To move in the direction that we feel we need to go into. To have possibilities and change available to us on our own timetable instead of being forced to react without any control or knowledge of the coming event.
Success can be a positive tool or it can be a destructive event.
There have been corporations that have been very successful, owning almost complete control of their markets only to be thwarted by outside market forces.
How about the original AT&T?
They had over 100% of the Market. They owned it all until consumers and the Federal Courts stepped in.
There are other companies that really do not want to hold too big a stake in the marketplace and are happy to be number two or even number three. They realize that number one is a target that everyone is hoping to knock down one day.
Let’s take a looks at Microsoft.
Today it’s considered the number one company in computer software. They’ve made their brand name Global. They like controlling certain areas of the markets and have knocked out competition by just letting the competitors think that Microsoft was going to enter their markets. It’s the big elephant that everyone can’t help but notice in the room.
There are a few other companies in the world that are like that. Most of them want to blend into the background, but they can’t help themselves. They’re big, the market knows it and that’s all there is to it.
The one’s to really worry about are the small and up and coming.
Why?
Because you really don’t know where they’re coming from and they might be coming from your little market niche, they’re hungry and willing to put it all out there for they really have nothing to lose but to be successful. It’s all or nothing for them.
Success is different for each company in the Global Market. You have to keep your eyes focused not only on what is ahead of you, but look over your shoulder and watch what’s coming up at you.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Workers Of Innovation
Generation Y, that’s what they call the new group of young people that are entering the work force of today these are young, well educated, workforce.
To Boomers, who have been the main staple of workers for the past thirty years, they are called, our children.
When the famous Boomers went to work they captured the flag of the day by becoming the go-go workers of their generation.
They were pushing the envelope and became the Yuppies of the eighties.
Greed was good.
You were working for only one reason, make the money.
Show me the money became a manta in the nineties and thousands of Boomers relied on it.
To many it was a way of life.
Work and more work.
Family was secondary, life was secondary.
Many Boomers found that the life they were leading was not the one that they wanted. Now as they age they look for a way out of their go-go life and looking for what is valuable in their lives. Many have left the corporate world and started new business, doing what gives them a passion in life. Something they really want to do.
Now Generation Y, the children of the Boomers are entering the working world and they are in a way following their parents.
The Boomers were happy to be working for a company for twenty plus years, but the Gen. Y is not interesting in working anywhere for that long a time. Instead, they want to change the companies that are hiring them. This is the generation that had a computer in their home, VCR’s, Cell Phones, Fax Machines, cable TV. They went on vacations around the world with Mom and Dad, they had their own calendars book to keep their schedules in line. Their time after school was packed with all kinds of activities they hardly had time for baseball, karate, ballet, and last but not least, homework.
They were applying for day school while they were still in the womb, college before they finished kindergarten.
Now, they have gotten their degrees and they are out there doing their thing and the corporate world is not ready for them. This is the generation that knew about computers and how to operate them before they could ride a two wheeler. They’ve grown up with MAC’s and PC. They know MS Office and other software’s that their parents took years to learn. In reality, college education is not needed by this generation as the previous generations. Why? Because of their knowledge and experience with the computers.
You’ve got a problem with a computer, who do you call at IT?
Probably some twenty-year old something who comes over and in less than fifteen minutes, has solved your problem.
Generation Y knows the tools of business, which today is communications and instant messaging. You see them with their phones, sending IM’s to each other, chatting in real time from almost anywhere in their work day. They can send chats to more than one person at a time, be listening to their IPods, keeping an eye on the email on their computer and be able to hold up their end in the office rumor mill.
What is amazing about this group is the innovations that they hopefully will bring to the Businesses they work for.
Innovation is the lifeline of a business. It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, if you don’t innovate you will not survive in today’s market place. Change is the one constant in the Universe. Everything is going through change and businesses can’t be left behind. No matter what your business is, innovation is key to your growing success.
The most important part of that innovation is your employees. They have to become assets to your operation. They are working in your business and are seeing it from a different angle that you might be at. They are on the ground level dealing with customers, suppliers and so forth. You employees might be able to come up with new idea, new products, new concepts that will help you to evolve and survive in the business world.
Everyone is an asset and the company that believes in that and uses it, will be successful.
The New Generation of workers are entering the workforce with a much different attitude then they’re parents. They realize that work is part of their lives, so they want to make work fun.
Fun at work, way different concept, we’ve always felt work was a necessity that we put up with in order to make money to get the other things we want in our lives, home, cars, toys and so forth.
This generation wants work to be built around their time schedule.
They are willing to do the all nighters, just like in college days, but they want to do it at their own speed. Sometimes this brings a confrontation with the old business model which is the 8 to 5.
This is no longer your dad’s workplace.
That’s the first thing you have to realize.
This is now the workplace of the Gen Y’s and they want everything to change.
To Boomers, who have been the main staple of workers for the past thirty years, they are called, our children.
When the famous Boomers went to work they captured the flag of the day by becoming the go-go workers of their generation.
They were pushing the envelope and became the Yuppies of the eighties.
Greed was good.
You were working for only one reason, make the money.
Show me the money became a manta in the nineties and thousands of Boomers relied on it.
To many it was a way of life.
Work and more work.
Family was secondary, life was secondary.
Many Boomers found that the life they were leading was not the one that they wanted. Now as they age they look for a way out of their go-go life and looking for what is valuable in their lives. Many have left the corporate world and started new business, doing what gives them a passion in life. Something they really want to do.
Now Generation Y, the children of the Boomers are entering the working world and they are in a way following their parents.
The Boomers were happy to be working for a company for twenty plus years, but the Gen. Y is not interesting in working anywhere for that long a time. Instead, they want to change the companies that are hiring them. This is the generation that had a computer in their home, VCR’s, Cell Phones, Fax Machines, cable TV. They went on vacations around the world with Mom and Dad, they had their own calendars book to keep their schedules in line. Their time after school was packed with all kinds of activities they hardly had time for baseball, karate, ballet, and last but not least, homework.
They were applying for day school while they were still in the womb, college before they finished kindergarten.
Now, they have gotten their degrees and they are out there doing their thing and the corporate world is not ready for them. This is the generation that knew about computers and how to operate them before they could ride a two wheeler. They’ve grown up with MAC’s and PC. They know MS Office and other software’s that their parents took years to learn. In reality, college education is not needed by this generation as the previous generations. Why? Because of their knowledge and experience with the computers.
You’ve got a problem with a computer, who do you call at IT?
Probably some twenty-year old something who comes over and in less than fifteen minutes, has solved your problem.
Generation Y knows the tools of business, which today is communications and instant messaging. You see them with their phones, sending IM’s to each other, chatting in real time from almost anywhere in their work day. They can send chats to more than one person at a time, be listening to their IPods, keeping an eye on the email on their computer and be able to hold up their end in the office rumor mill.
What is amazing about this group is the innovations that they hopefully will bring to the Businesses they work for.
Innovation is the lifeline of a business. It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, if you don’t innovate you will not survive in today’s market place. Change is the one constant in the Universe. Everything is going through change and businesses can’t be left behind. No matter what your business is, innovation is key to your growing success.
The most important part of that innovation is your employees. They have to become assets to your operation. They are working in your business and are seeing it from a different angle that you might be at. They are on the ground level dealing with customers, suppliers and so forth. You employees might be able to come up with new idea, new products, new concepts that will help you to evolve and survive in the business world.
Everyone is an asset and the company that believes in that and uses it, will be successful.
The New Generation of workers are entering the workforce with a much different attitude then they’re parents. They realize that work is part of their lives, so they want to make work fun.
Fun at work, way different concept, we’ve always felt work was a necessity that we put up with in order to make money to get the other things we want in our lives, home, cars, toys and so forth.
This generation wants work to be built around their time schedule.
They are willing to do the all nighters, just like in college days, but they want to do it at their own speed. Sometimes this brings a confrontation with the old business model which is the 8 to 5.
This is no longer your dad’s workplace.
That’s the first thing you have to realize.
This is now the workplace of the Gen Y’s and they want everything to change.
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