Four Major Misconceptions about Millennials

And six management strategies to unleash their potential for your firm.

Middleton
Middleton

By Wesley Middleton
Middleton Raines LLP

From the sound of it, Millennials are ruining everything. At least that’s how they’ve been made to feel. Supposed experts focus on how different the Millennials are, how hard they are to understand, to attract and to retain.

After reading the experts, I decided to offer my perspective as a managing partner of a 72-person firm where the average age of our firm is 34.65 and 49 of our people are the age 35 or below.  This experience – along with a 20-year-old daughter and a 17-year-old son – has given me a different perspective.

In fact, the differences between the generations are exaggerated. It’s funny to see how the older generation always looks at the generation behind them and says they are so different and won’t achieve what we have or that they have some “hard to understand” ideas. They said that about me when I was 25.

I love this generation coming up and here is why: