Wayne Meisel | Business Manager | SAP Africa | mail me |
Throughout the business world, old assumptions about what makes a good leader and what success in the workplace looks like are being discarded.
As Gen Z and Millennials – loosely defined as those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s – continue to advance up the career ladder, their distinctly different outlook on work and life is changing age-old notions of success and leadership.
The classic picture of the CEO as a grey, suit-and-tie wearing executive has been replaced by a dynamic sneakers-and-jeans sporting young leader with a more casual approach to office attire.
These Suits most definitely have the experience and the business maturity on their side, however, the so-called Sneakers – the younger, less traditional, more purpose-driven and digitally-native – are teaching the older Suits new ways of work and rewriting classic notions of success in the process.
Flexible approaches to work
Millennials are considered the first generation to grow up entirely with the Internet as part of their daily lives. These digital natives have never known a world without the convenience of online shopping, the power of smartphones, or the connective threads of social media.
While Baby Boomers are considered to be more traditional, more likely to remain with one company for longer – sometimes even spending an entire career with one employer – and more comfortable with a 9-5 in-the-office workweek, Millennials are upending many of these traditions.
Today, young professionals and executives are just as likely to be…
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