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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