Thomas AngleroCEO, MerkabaPhi AS · CEO and AI Advisor to boards and CEOs

The Impact of Generational Differences: Embracing Change in the Corporate World

25 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Thomas Anglero. This content was uploaded by Thomas Anglero. This is a YouTube video titled "The Impact of Generational Differences: Embracing Change in the Corporate World" (posted 2024-06-25) featuring a single speaker (monologue/commentary). The speaker discusses how personal change is difficult—especially for older men in corporate roles who feel entitled—and argues that that mindset is detrimental given rapid technological change (including AI) and the attitudes of younger cohorts (Gen Z and Gen Alpha) who are more open and likely to leave jobs that don't fit them.

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What is needed is personal change. Personal change is hard. The older you get, the more set in your ways you are. Men— I'll talk about men— the older they get in the office space, the more they feel that they earned the right to be where they are in the position that they are, you know, uh, and that they're sort of become this wise person. That mindset, that culture that exists not just in Germany, it's a mindset of in the corporate world and probably small, medium business as well. It is very detrimental today, extremely detrimental when it comes to the technology and AI and the rate of change that we've been talking about. And also because of the Gen Z and then Gen Alpha, they're made of a completely different— they are, they're open, they talk and they do what they want. They will accept the job and the first day of the job they'll walk in the office, they look around and go, ah, I'm outta here. Change is personal. So what you're seeing in the office is people's not able to change where they are in life.