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1   NDrLoR   2017 Jul 7, 12:57pm  

AUDIO: Combatting entitlemania at home and in business

SANTA ANA
July 5, 2017 9:01pm

• The entitlement epidemic that has reached most families in America
• “It’s our fault – 100 percent”

It’s a national epidemic. But it’s not one chased by scientists worried about a superbug of some sort. Instead, it’s an epidemic faced by most parents and, increasingly, business managers. It’s entitlemania. Richard Watts, a veteran advisor and legal counsel for over 35 years to some of America’s most successful families, defines it as the state of mind in which “kids believe they should have everything they want but they don’t see the need to put in an effort to get it.” “It’s our fault – 100 percent,” he says of today’s parents. “This doesn’t just happen genetically to children.” Children are one aspect of the problem. But kids grow up and in too many cases take that sense of entitlement into the workplace, Mr. Watt says. It seems to manifest itself in the common bewilderment of older managers in how to deal with the Millennial generation. “It really comes down to sitting down with employees and first of all recognizing that they are different animals. Generations do change and I think, frankly, some of it’s better,” he says. Mr. Watts says those manager-Millennial talks should be frank and spell out the company’s ways of doing business. “And then to listen to them,” he says. “I think one of the things we maybe have to be mindful of is that in the progress of this generation in business, 20-year-olds that are internet-savvy and social media-savvy, they have keys into doing business a different way than we understand it. It doesn’t hurt to listen to some of that.”
(Richard Watts talks about entitlemania and how businesses can cope with it in today’s exclusive CVBT Audio Interview via Skype. Please click on the link below to listen now or to download the audio file for later listening.)

Mr. Watts, author of “Fables of Fortune,” is now tackling this new issue in his recently released book, “Entitlemania: How Not to Spoil Your Kids, and What to Do If You Have,” Greenleaf Book Press Group, January 2017.

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