Millennials were born to lead -- here's why | Danielle Shoots | TEDxMileHigh

You've heard the stereotypes - Millennials are entitled and unmotivated, and they can't get off their damn phones! But whether you love them or hate them, Millennials are a rapidly growing part of the workforce. Danielle Shoots decided to investigate - will Millennials be great business leaders? Danielle Shoots is a wife, mother of two teenagers, and VP of Finance Operations at Comcast. With a Business Administration degree from CU Denver, she has worked with Denver Health and the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment. Danielle is deeply involved in the community, serving as VP to the board of Mile High Ministries and as a mentor with the Challenge Foundation. She enjoys yoga, travel, spontaneous dance parties, and spiced coffee. She was named to the Denver Business Journal's 2017 40 under 40. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@kierramc92]

This was such an articulate and accurate explanation of Millennials. Thank you!

[@dmn4747]

It drives me crazy how things millennials like: plants, more eco-friendly things, more plant-based cooking, going back to more simple things, thrifting, etc are things we are RIDICULED for and somehow makes us entitled and 'living in the clouds,' but are ALSO the VERY THINGS our parents never shut up about as 'the things that made the greatest generation and the depression generations GREAT.' Like if you praise your grandmother for living on a budget and loving gardening, why are you ridiculing your children for that?

[@dmn4747]

People also often confused millennials strong need for personal peace and boundary setting as 'entitlement' and 'laziness.' People do NOT like being told no and they hate when you set boundaries that no longer allow them to take advantage of you.

[@rhin2113]

Proud of this young lady

[@bladewright5356]

There's nothing like defining YOURSELF.

[@Bitachon]

Very good & interesting perspective

[@maric7358]

amazing I cried!!

[@ryanpittman6948]

🥺

[@erentitan980]

Love this! Millenials are great. Young people. We need to change to be better. In these dark times of covid19, we need to care more for each other. Love more for your fellow humans. We need to contribute to the society, doing our best for the future of humanity. Let's create peace on earth, a safe place for you and me.

[@PattyDejiTips]

Amazing!!!

[@kimberlyhoward4032]

❤️❤️❤️. This is really good brain food to think about 👍

[@katrinagraben5659]

So true ! Wish I could like 100000 times

[@Elcherino123]

Gen Y understand that we can be productive but also be nice (something older generations sometimes forget). We also care about the earth and more than profit balance sheets

[@chrisnolan7423]

Leaders don't blame everyone and anything for their shortcomings but millennial do.

[@mshineshare]

You ARE UNIQUE.. Your peers are playing games designed for 12 year olds, acting like they are different. They watch TV shows like the batchelor and makeup shows.. our future leaders? 🤔

[@zahranjie4516]

She is beautiful. ♥️♥️

[@joeknowz4898]

MY 30 year old millennial nephew is making 65k a year, gripes about his car payments, and insurance payment...Oh I forgot to say ...while still living in my sisters basement with his cat and 3 monitors so he can play call to duty every moment he can... OH yeah. I hate to say it...These are the futures ...Thats not my job.... people in the work force...and the word I hate more now then ever... "COWORKER". and just a hind sight item here...they were told to stay home because of covid....and now they don't want to go back to work..."you told me I had to stay home, ,,you never said I would have to come back"....

[@danconstantine4247]

I hired bunch of milenials and they started leadership some with a shovel, some with a broom.

[@the4cornersofficial768]

i am of the 0.0000000000000000001% of millenials. the way i was raised, taught, understood, and learned From a model married twice grandmother married to a foriegn policy leader and a glassblower. she is 120% correct. if you add a military mindset to this. The milienial is unstoppable..

[@JohnnyPartainJr]

You're perfect.

[@andresgutierrez4411]

Very nice speech! Even tho she copied most of the ideas from a previous ted talk, even the examples.

[@MrsSimeyon]

Millennial.....lol

[@btetschner]

Every moment on their phones makes them dependent on it for a place to escape. The internet defines their generation, and phones are one of its more popular devices.

[@btetschner]

They are followers and supporters, and there is nothing wrong with that.

[@theboombody]

I just don't understand what's so wonderful about the phones that someone would have to be on them every waking second. Particularly a grown person. I get that kids don't know any better.

[@btetschner]

@@theboombody It's just the path of least resistance, and the younger generations have too much of a desire to follow it. Generation X is the only generation who did not.

[@paulgrijalva]

🤣Hilarious!

[@shadowboxing1729]

Oh my goodness this is funny

[@AndrewHodgsonLifeandFaith]

True, studies show that we millennials have a deep desire to do something impactful. In the world of the Church, I’d suggest millennials should be feeling this even more.

[@urAnusFighter1]

Lol you sound like a Victorian like the rest of the neo victorian progressives

[@ChiinM]

The question is not where we are going, but where are ya'll taking us!?

[@C2G2]

Exactly👌. I totally agree with that question.😊😊👍

[@esayasersabo1793]

The milenials not only will teach us, they are doing it so now. A reverse mentoring!

[@wgw808]

If everything she says is true then what’s app should have be sold for $40,000 or is $14 billion the new $40,000 for them.

[@starkops]

wgw808 19bill ..whatever / chump change = just chuck on the printer 🖨 make it happen

[@MasterTSayge]

It's sad. Where I'm at, most successful young people today are women. All my friends and family who are women are successful. The young men in the other hand, That's a different story.

[@starkops]

SKYRULE-49 what’s up w/that? What’s ur take?

[@sboloshis1188]

Oh that’s the diversity initiative pushed by boomers. My take is women are eager for power and boomers want “yes men” the men wont be their whips and act unethical but these desperate woman will.

[@damiantruran3478]

Millennials are by far the most entitled work force ever.

[@ared-ainu]

It is funny to see this amount of sociological insight, paired with that much of capitalistic ideology. (and being critical of purely capitalistic thinking doesn't make a person a communist, fyi.)

[@luhe8]

I don't get where all this "participation trophy" comes from, I've never gotten one neither wanted one.

[@MemoryLane77852]

Luhê Rinnert you have one and you have so many that it’s as normal as the air you breath.

[@luhe8]

@@MemoryLane77852 oh really? Name one, since you know so much about my life. I'll wait.

[@StevieDamnit]

@@luhe8 Don't mind the obvious troll. They still live in their parents' basement.

[@ryanpittman6948]

🏆

[@susannunes6196]

Do you actually talk to people ...all people

[@Apple_Teck]

LOL. Potted plants.

[@theboombody]

When millennials start embracing God more than their phones, I'll have more confidence in them. I'm still upset about all those young people who spread the false gospel of promiscuity in the 60's, and they're a lot older than I am. That's when things really started getting bad. Can't blame millennials for starting that trend. Just for continuing it.

[@theboombody]

@Tara Johnson I don't know, when I look at the structure of the complex numbers, there is something beautiful and orderly there that still remains beyond human understanding. The orderly characteristic is the surprising one.

[@darth-imperius]

No one cares about that imaginary friend of yours, cause he is a monster. Keep him to yourself. He is nothing but psychological abuse. Sadly, you've been abused in his name for so long, you don't even see it.

[@smallclone]

Then why are they called the sheep generation?

[@sboloshis1188]

smallclone that is what makes them so great to leaders, yes men do what they are told. GenX is rebellious and will fix that kind of cronyism.

[@StevieDamnit]

@@sboloshis1188 You guys are such toolbags. 😆

[@johnnowakowski4062]

They are leaders as long as they have their safe spaces to run into...

[@StevieDamnit]

Calm down, mommy's little edgelord.

[@ray1411]

Y’all just have the numbers. That’s it. And those numbers may dwindle due to ODs and other factors.

[@kalanaherath3076]

Ah huh? And what do you have? Nothing but baseless criticism not backed up by any proof

[@starkops]

It’s not a competition.. we ALL live here, man... Dafuq

[@soniasilva9637]

Well, i sure hope SOME Millenials get there, but that's not what we're seeing. They're very dependant on Authority , and Collectivists, in short, a bad copy of the worst Boomers . If Mankind survives, it will be due to Gen X and Gen Z teaming up to shore up the damage Millenials did and continue to do.

[@joseansalazar8766]

Bla bla bla...