Sunday, March 30, 2014

Millennials Seeking Purpose

The Promise of a Pencil – How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change - Adam Braun (Scribner)

One of the biggest challenges facing experienced leaders and managers is to bring the necessary skillsets to bare to properly develop and lead millennial generation employees. Millenials bring not only a unique set of challenges to the work environment given their everybody gets a trophy upbringing and helicopter parents, but also their desire to affect lasting change on the world they live in.

While The Promise of a Pencil – How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, by Adam Braun is the perfect guidebook for millenials to follow their dreams, but also a solid tools for those leaders and managers who are facing that leadership challenge.


Braun is the founder of the education organization Pencils of Promise, that was founded with $25 and has since gone on to develop and build a development model to tackle worldwide education issues and in the process build 200 schools. Braun’s is a unique story; a new to the fold business advisor for Bain Capital who chucked all of the capital gain and lifestyle associated with the position based on an overwhelming desire to pursue and worthwhile work.

Each chapter of the book details a lesson that Braun learned and brought to the pursuit of his dream. This makes for an ideal leadership toolkit for mentoring and developing millenials and designing a leadership process that will meet not only your needs, but their needs as well.

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