From the course: Managing Generation Z

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The new path to success: Why Gen Z is open to alternative paths

The new path to success: Why Gen Z is open to alternative paths

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The new path to success: Why Gen Z is open to alternative paths

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- Okay, Dad, it's the 1980s, you walk into your parents' living room, and you say to them, "I don't think I'm going to go to college." What are they going to say to you? - (chuckles) First of all, they would not have let me finish that sentence. Gen Xers, when we told our traditionist parents we weren't going to college, they said, "Absolutely no way, you are going. "Let's be clear, no CEO would ever hire you "without a college degree." And so we went. Well, then you flash forward, and not much changed. When millennials walked into their boomers' living room and they said, "Hey, Mom and Dad, I don't think I'm going to go to college," boomers said, "I don't think so. "You're going to college. "I've invested a lot of money. "It's reflective of me. "And let's be honest, "no CEO would ever hire you without a degree, "so you're going to go to college at any cost," and literally millennials did. - Now flash forward…

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