From an interview with Boeing CFO, James Bell:
What strikes you about the young people who come to you?
They really think they should have bigger jobs from day one than we did when we came out of school. That’s something corporate America is going to have to address. I don’t think you have to be in a role ten years in order to get a major assignment; it needs to be based on what a person demonstrates rather than just on tenure.
But having said that, I think a lot of young people think they know a lot more than they really know.
I doubt that young people have changed at all over the years. Each generation launches into adulthood convinced of their own superiority, determined to do things better than the previous generation. This conviction is the source of much progress as thinking differently and doing differently sometimes result in doing better. It is good that Youth blinds us with bold naivety, but it is easy to forget that we change as we get older.
