Here’s one for Don and the Net Generation team to chew on or chew up. Baronness Susan Greenfield, a professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, has warned that the experience of growing up immersed in hyper-stimulating ...

There is an interesting article today in the New York Times about student expectations and grade inflation. Basically, students expect an “A” if they’ve done their best, after all, “they always get A’s.” Here are some quotes from professors in the article: “Man...

Click on the YouTube video above to hear President-elect Barack Obama invite the nation to participate in the Inauguration festivities surrounding his swearing-in as President on January 20. True to form, Obama’s opening words include “But this inauguration is not about me. It’s ab...

In a country where many forms of communication and media are restricted by government, Iran has one of the most vibrant blogging communities in the world; hosting around 65,000 bloggers and 22 million internet users. To suitably illustrate the popularity of blogging in Iran, according to Alexa.com, ...

We’ve just made public a research study we conducted with Neil Howe about Helicopter Parents. Click here to download the hard copy. Here is an interesting study that proposes that children of helicopter parents will not become entrepreneurs because they haven’t learned “how to fai...

Reading the business news lately is pretty depressing, as article after article goes into detail on which big business (the banks, the car companies, etc.) is in most urgent need of a bailout. I’m personally on the skeptical side about whether any of these will help much, and more importantly ...

I attended a conference last week and one of the topics during a panel discussion focused on how to attract and retain Net Geners. The main ideas included: Highlighting a social agenda and reinforcing the idea “we do meaningful work” Give Net Geners the opportunity to drive the business ...

As part of my research on Net Generation leadership, I’m reviewing a lot of interesting books on the subject. I’m part way through Motivating the “What’s in it For Me?” Workforce: Manage Across the Generational Divide and Increase Profits” by Cam Marston. Some int...

It is no secret that Obama has blown his opponents out of the water on YouTube.  Seven of the videos on Obama’s official YouTube page have drawn more than a million views, with his s peech on race pushing the 5 million mark. Not one Clinton video has made it to a million, and McCain’s most ...

The mainstream press has reported about how difficult it is for high school students to find summer jobs (for examples see here, here, and here), which makes this article seem counter-intuitive. It seems that the Net Gen doesn’t want to be a lifeguard. At the risk of starting a sentence “...