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What happens when millennials fill the C-Suite? By Matt Britton

Name: What happens when millennials fill the C-Suite? By Matt Britton
Uploaded: 2019-01-10T02:24:38Z
Channel: Matt Britton
Description: A short talk reflecting on generational shifts in corporate leadership: the speaker argues Millennials have not yet filled C-suite roles and predicts…

10 Jan 2019

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A short talk reflecting on generational shifts in corporate leadership: the speaker argues Millennials have not yet filled C-suite roles and predicts significant disruption when they do, contrasting this change with prior generational transitions (Gen X to Gen Y) and giving examples of current executive behaviors rooted in older media-era mindsets.

I don't think the difference between Millennials and Gen Z is going to be nearly as stark and nearly as disruptive as the change from Gen X to Gen Y. And what really fascinates me is that Millennials still have not filled up the C Suite yet. You still have C suite people, CMOs, for instance, that are golfing buddies with the CEO of a Madison Avenue agency, making decisions in a 1995 world like we're tuning into Must See TV on Thursday night to watch Seinfeld and Friends and Cheers. But that's not the world we live in anymore. But the reason that the world hasn't shifted is in most major organizations, those decision makers did not grow up with eating out in the household. But once that changes, once the Millennial generation fills the C Suite, I think that's when you actually really start to see a disruption.