I wonder how many of these supposedly lazy young people just needed a manager like Jen Wu. If a mentor sets aside fifteen minutes a day (or even fifteen minutes a week) to ask you authentic, open-ended questions about how to optimize your time, you’ll feel motivated. On the other hand, having a manager who doesn’t give you any meaningful time or attention is demotivating. Who knows how much money businesses could save—and how much more respected young employees would feel—if new hires got the Jen Wu treatment. They would probably work more efficiently, overperform, and want to stick around at
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