The Mentor Myth: How Native Analogs Can Thrive in a Native Digital World | Lochhead on Different

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:

• This is about adaptation, not ageism: Native digitals are not better or worse than native analogs, but they are actually a new category of human being. That may sound like an exaggeration, but it's not.
• Businesses at risk of obsolescence: Leaders who do not account for the differences of native digitals are going to face (1) the failure to hire and retain anybody under 35 and (2) the inability to market and sell to anybody under 35.
• The Mentor Myth: Chris says that the secret to native analogs thriving in our native digital world is understanding that the older generations have as much to learn from the younger ones as vice versa. Read more in "The Mentor Myth" ebook.
  

The Big Quote: "We are the last native analogues to walk Planet Earth. period. Human beings have embedded technology into the core experience of life. And that will be true forever going forward."

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