HBR IdeaCast · Harvard Business Review
How to Manage -- and Motivate -- Gen Z
December 30, 2025·32 min·2 clips
A Gen Z MIT grad emailed GM's CEO with ideas, only to be told he needed eight years before he could lead anything.
As heard by us
A practical HBR listen on motivating Gen Z through coaching, context, and a less disposable view of early career work.
HBR IdeaCast uses the familiar complaints about younger workers as a sharper management prompt: what changes when employers treat Gen Z employees as people to invest in, not labor to burn through?
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Learn what keeps Gen Z engaged, coached, and staying longer at work.
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