At a family lunch, a familiar conversation came up—the kind that happens at thousands of tables. A feeling that something has broken. That the younger generation doesn’t respond, doesn’t commit, doesn’t seem engaged. The phone rings and no one answers. Messages take too long. Working with young people feels difficult because they simply don’t seem to be there. It’s not a malicious criticism. It’s confusion. And it’s understandable. Those now in their sixties grew up in a world where work had ...

At a family lunch, a familiar conversation came up—the kind that happens at thousands of tables. A feeling that something has broken. That the younger generation doesn’t respond, doesn’t commit, doesn’t seem engaged. The phone rings and no one answers. Messages take too long. Working with young people feels difficult because they simply don’t seem to be there. It’s not a malicious criticism. It’s confusion. And it’s understandable. Those now in their sixties grew up in a world where work had ...