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• Thursday, September 01, 2011 7:19 AM

  Small Business, Big Vision

  Matthew and Adam Toren have some career advice for young people today: if you want a great job, start a great company. The Torens run YoungEntrepreneur.com , one of the Web's best sites for practical advice on starting, running, promoting and growing Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Millennials, small business, entrepreneurship

• Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:40 PM

  Net Generation Entrepreneurs: Four Perspectives

  Earlier this fall, I made a guest appearance at the Digital Media in Emerging Economies class at the University of Washington, where Y oung World Rising is part of the syllabus. One of the students, Amy Rainey , was inspired to produce this short film Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: education, Media, Millennials, Young World Rising, blended entrepreneurship, emerging markets strategy

• Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:35 AM

  Generation Blend in Insurance

  The piece for the New York Times I co-wrote with Michael Costonis from Accenture on the problems of the insurance industry recruiting next-generation workers ran in the "PreOccupations" column in last Sunday's Business Section. It's more Generation Blend Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, Millennials, management, demographics

• Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:36 PM

  The Economist's Fashionable NetGen Contrarianism

  This week's Economist quarterly technology supplement asks , "is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of ‘digital natives' who have grown up with the Internet?" Given that I've written a book on the subject, you can count me in the "yes" column Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: generational theory, Millennials

• Friday, February 12, 2010 9:05 AM

  Top 30 Blogs for Young Entrepreneurs

  I'm a little late to the party, but last month, Unstrapp'd compiled this useful list of the top 30 Young Entrepreneur Blogs of 2009. I came across it via Shirley's Zone , the blog of an 18 year-old digital entrepreneur and business pundit from Ghana. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, entrepreneurship

• Monday, May 18, 2009 9:30 AM

  Young Africa Rising

  This is a repost from my April 22 column for Internet Evolution . It makes a nice overture for my work-in-progress, Young World Rising. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: Millennials, Young World Rising

• Monday, March 02, 2009 12:45 PM

  Managing the Blended Workplace

  My friend, colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece in Strategy + Business called "Keeping up with Workforce 2020." In it, Dan looks at some of the major themes of the coming decade that managers should keep in mind, including moves toward the Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, management, productivity

• Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:43 AM

  "NetGen Nonsense"

  I just stumbled across a blog called NetGen Nonsense , dedicated to debunking the "myth" of digital natives - that is, the relationship between the Millennial generation and collaborative technology. As far as I can see, the site posts some useful contrarian Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: education, Millennials

• Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:31 PM

  Is the Millennial Workstyle Recession-Proof?

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; Read More... Posted by Rob | 3 Comments Filed under: Millennials, demographics

• Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:43 AM

  Business School 2.0

  If you can hear me over the wind, the ambient noise, and the occasional ambulance siren, here I am talking about "Business School 2.0" with interviewer Richard Collin of Grebnoble Ecole De Management at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Cliff Notes Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: education, Millennials