1. “Here’s to the Crazy Ones,” Think Different ad campaign, Apple, 1997, http://www.thecrazyones.it/spot-en.html.
Introduction
1. Horace, Ars Poetica.
2. Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.12.
3. Attributed to Socrates by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953), 277.
4. Yoshido Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa, 2nd ed., Columbia University Press (April 15, 1998).
5. From Thomas Barnes, The Wise-Man’s Forecast against the Evill Time (London: n.p., 1624) and quoted in Jon Seder, “15 Historical Complaints about Young People Ruining Everything,” Mental Floss.com, March 21, 2016, http://mentalfloss.com/article/77445/15-historical-complaints-about-young-people-ruining-everything.
6. From a 1771 letter in Town and Country magazine, republished in Valerie Steel, Paris Fashion: A Cultural History (New York: Bloomsbury, 2017) and quoted in Seder, “15 Historical Complaints,” http://mentalfloss.com/article/77445/15-historical-complaints-about-young-people-ruining-everything.
7. Granville Stanley Hall, The Psychology of Adolescence (1904), as quoted in Seder, “15 Historical Complaints,” http://mentalfloss.com/article/77445/15-historical-complaints-about-young-people-ruining-everything.
8. From “The Conduct of Young People,” Hull Daily Mail, 1925, as quoted in “The 2,500-Year-Old History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation,” History Hustle, Apr. 17, 2018, https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/.
9. From “Scottish Rights of Way: More Young People Should Use Them,” Falkirk Herald, 1951, as quoted in “2,500-Year-Old History,” https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/.
10. From “Not Ready for Middle Age at 35,” Wall Street Journal, 1984, as quoted in “2,500-Year-Old History,” https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/.
11. Christopher Georges, “The Boring Twenties,” Washington Post, Sept. 12, 1993, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/09/12/the-boring-twenties/001a040b-d7f2-46ee-b489-44b68b8f82bb/.
12. David M. Gross and Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding with Caution,” Time, June 24, 2001, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,155010,00.html.
13. Joel Stein, “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation,” Time, May 20, 2013, https://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation/.
14. Alex Proud, “Crybaby Millennials Need to Stop Whinging and Work Hard Like the Rest of Us,” The Telegraph, Dec. 21, 2015, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/crybaby-millennials-need-to-stop-whinging-and-work-hard-like-the/.
15. Kevin Enochs, “A Boss’s Guide to Managing Bratty Millennials,” LifeZette, Jan. 26, 2016, https://www.lifezette.com/2016/01/a-bosss-guide-to-managing-wussy-millennials/.
16. Antonia Hoyle, “A Generation with a Huge Sense of Entitlement,” The Daily Mail, Feb. 16, 2017, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4232696/Millenials-generation-huge-sense-entitlement.html.
17. 1 Timothy 4:12.
18. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College.”
19. “Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Dedication of Qunu and Nkalane Schools,” Qunu and Nkalane Schools, June 3, 1995, http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=item&ItemID=NMS264.
20. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (London: Bloomsbury, 2005), chap. 26.
Chapter 1 The Space between Us
1. Fortune 500 database by year, http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/full/1965/.
2. Gordon E. Moore, “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits,” Electronics 38, no. 8 (April 19, 1965): https://www.supplychain247.com/images/pdfs/gordon_moore_1965_article.pdf.
3. Carolyn Henson, “SMS Celebrates 20th Anniversary,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 3, 2012, https://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/12/03/sms-celebrates-20th-anniversary/.
4. Whitney Johnson, “Why Today’s Teens Are More Entrepreneurial than Their Parents,” Harvard Business Review, May 25, 2015, https://hbr.org/2015/05/why-todays-teens-are-more-entrepreneurial-than-their-parents.
Chapter 2 New Normal
1. Michael Dimock, “Defining Generations: Where Millennials End and Post-Millennials Begin,” Pew Research Center, Jan. 17, 2019, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/defining-generations-where-millennials-end-and-post-millennials-begin/.
2. T. Aichner and P. J. Coletti, “Customers Online Shopping Practices in Mass Customization,” Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice 15, no. 1 (2013): 20, https://doi.org/10.1057/dddmp.2013.34.
3. Graham Kendall, “Would Your Mobile Phone Be Powerful Enough to Get You to the Moon?” TheConversation.com, https://theconversation.com/would-your-mobile-phone-be-powerful-enough-to-get-you-to-the-moon-115933.
Chapter 3 Crossing Over
1. Erin Duffin, “Resident Population in the United States in 2017, by Generation (in Millions),” Statista.com, Aug. 9, 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/797321/us-population-by-generation/.
Chapter 4 Rethinking Leadership
1. Brandon Busteed, “The School Cliff: Student Engagement Drops with Each School Year,” Gallup, Jan. 7, 2013, https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/170525/school-cliff-student-engagement-drops-school-year.aspx.
2. Rasmus Hougaard, “The Real Crisis in Leadership,” Forbes, Sept. 9, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rasmushougaard/2018/09/09/the-real-crisis-in-leadership/#2fd73e1b3ee4.
3. Gallup, “State of the American Workplace 2017,” 19.
4. Falon Fatemi, “What’s Your Strategy for Attracting Generation Z?” Forbes, Mar. 31, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/2018/03/31/whats-your-strategy-for-attracting-generation-z/#3c2fd0dd6cad.
Chapter 5 Membership
1. Toshiko Kaneda, “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?,” Prb.org, Mar. 9, 2018, https://www.prb.org/howmanypeoplehaveeverlivedonearth/.
2. https://www.ihrsa.org.
3. K. D. Williams, “Ostracism,” Annual Review of Psychology, 58 (2007): 425–52.
4. N. I. Eisenberger, M. D. Lieberman, and K. D. Williams, “Does Rejection Hurt? An FMRI Study of Social Exclusion,” Science 302 (Oct. 10, 2003): 290–92.
5. S. J. Karau and K. D. Williams, “Social Loafing: A Meta-Analytic Review and Theoretical Integration,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 65, no. 4 (Oct. 1993): 681–706.
Chapter 7 Leadership
1. Steve Denning, “The Best of Peter Drucker,” Forbes, July 29, 2014, www.forbes.com.
2. Peter F. Drucker, “Your Leadership Is Unique,” Christianity Today International/LEADERSHIP 17, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 54.
3. Peter Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (New York: HarperBusiness [repr.], 1993), 463.
4. Stephen R. Covey, “Voices on Leadership: Stephen R. Covey,” Washingtonpost.com, July 17, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/16/DI2008071602427.html?noredirect=on.
5. Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness (New York: Free Press [repr.], 2005), 98.
6. “Marie Curie (1867–1934): Her Life, Achievements and Legacy,” HistoryExtra.com, Nov. 7, 2018, https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/life-of-the-week-marie-curie/.
Chapter 8 View from 30,000 Feet
1. “Many Trophies for Tossers in State Tourney,” The Evening Independent, Feb. 8, 1922, 8, https://newspaperarchive.com/sports-clipping-feb-08-1922-1129748/.
Chapter 9 Talent
1. Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths (New York: The Free Press, 2001), 29.
2. https://www.originalamateurhour.com.
Chapter 10 Training
1. “Skills Sets in Nontraditional Careers,” Minnesota State CAREERwise, https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/careers/skillsets.html.
2. George Kuh, Ken O’Donnell, and Carol Geary Schneider, “HIPs at Ten,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 49, no. 5 (Nov. 2017): 8–16, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00091383.2017.1366805.
3. NSC Research Center, “Completing College—National—2018,” Dec. 18, 2018, https://nscresearchcenter.org/signaturereport16/.
Chapter 11 Timing
1. Lexico by Oxford, s.v. “perfect,” https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/perfect.
2. “Stefania Comăneci,” Libertatea.ro, http://www.libertatea.ro/sport/alte-sporturi/stefania-comaneci-mama-nadiei-sunt-mandra-de-ea-665179.
3. “Human to Hero: Nadia Comaneci—Olympic Gymnastics’ First Perfect 10,” CNN.com, Apr. 3, 2012, https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/sport/olympics-nadia-comaneci/index.html.
4. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008), 38–39.
5. Reddit.com, June 2, 2014, https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2740ct/hi_im_malcolm_gladwell_author_of_the_tipping/chx6ku3/?context=8&depth=9.
6. “Human to Hero,” https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/sport/olympics-nadia-comaneci/index.html.
7. Sam Rega, “Professional Video Game Players Practice up to 17 Hours a Day Because ‘Brute Force Number of Hours’ Is the Only Way to Improve,” Business Insider, Apr. 29, 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pro-video-game-players-spend-money-2016-4.
Chapter 12 Treasure
1. Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken,” first published in 1915.
2. “Americans Satisfied With Number of Friends, Closeness of Friendships,” Gallup.com, March 5, 2004, https://news.gallup.com/poll/10891/americans-satisfied-number-friends-closeness-friendships.aspx.
3. C. W. Headley, “New Study Claims the Average American Has This Many Friends,” Ladders, May 2019, https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/new-study-claims-that-the-average-american-has-this-many-friends.
Chapter 13 Strength
1. “U.S. Skills Gap,” SkillsUSA.org, https://www.skillsusa.org/about/why-career-technical-education/stem-and-cte-alignment/u-s-skills-gap/.
2. “Gobs of Facts & Statistics on Employee Engagement, Leadership, & Strengths Based Cultures,” Lead through Strengths, https://leadthroughstrengths.com/stats/.
Chapter 14 One-of-One
1. “How Millennials and Generation Z Are Redefining Work,” The Change Generation Report 2017, Lovell Corporation, https://www.lovellcorporation.com/the-change-generation-report/.
Chapter 16 Mission Defines Your Why
1. “Our Mission,” Nike.com, https://about.nike.com.
Chapter 17 Goals Define Your What
1. Barrett Whissman, “An Accountability Partner Makes You Vastly More Likely to Succeed,” Entrepreneur, March 20, 2018, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/310062.
2. Tommy Ford presents . . . Through My Lens Teaser, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDyxmY1wFs.
Conclusion
1. “The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016,” Time, Oct. 19, 2016, http://time.com/4532104/most-influential-teens-2016/.
2. “The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2017,” Time, Nov. 3, 2017, http://time.com/5003930/most-influential-teens-2017/.
3. “Atomic Education Urged by Einstein; Scientist in Plea for $200,000 to Promote New Type of Essential Thinking,” New York Times, May 25, 1946, 11, https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/25/archives/atomic-education-urged-by-einstein-scientist-in-plea-for-200000-to.html.