innovation

Make Millennial Entrepreneurship Work for You

on May 3, 2013 · Comments · in Ask A Gen Y

Millennials have high ideals — and a strong commitment to those ideals, values and beliefs. They realize those ideals must be actionable and realizable, and once the mental juices get flowing, the outcome is promising. Take Etsy founder Rob Kalin, for example. In 2005 Kalin, a high school dropout, was a 25-year-old furniture designer trying to [...]

Give Gen Y Time to Play

on March 28, 2013 · Comments · in Ask A Gen Y

The pressures of day-to-day operations are huge. As long as there are deadlines (and when will there not be deadlines?), who has the time to innovate? The answer is those given the time to innovate. Management gurus have long sung the praises of giving employees free time to fiddle with ideas they initiate, and that [...]

How to Create a Workplace That Fits Millennial America

on March 22, 2013 · Comments · in Ask A Gen Y

Earlier this year the Roosevelt Institute’s Campus Network, the nation’s largest undergraduate public policy organization, took on a new project: Government By and For Millennial America, a manifesto of the millennial generation’s vision of governance, social justice and pragmatic policy change. To complete this project, Campus Network leaders engaged more than 1,000 millennials about the future [...]

The Week That Was

on March 14, 2013 · Comments · in The Week That Was

College basketball fans have just one more week before the greatest tournament — the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — gets under way. Kill the final weekend of sanity before the madness begins with these top five stories from CLOmedia.com for the week of March 11. 1. An Inside Look at Walgreens University: Walgreens is doubling its [...]

The Week That Was

on March 7, 2013 · Comments · in The Week That Was

The first day of spring will be here before you know it, so settle in with these top five stories from CLOmedia.com for the week of March 4. 1. Apple’s Secret Training Ground: Apple keeps a tight lid on what goes on in its learning organization, Apple University. Why? CLO editor Jennifer Kahn has more. 2. An [...]