Scott Samuels, CEO of Horizon Hospitality – A member of the Sanford Rose Associates® network of offices, Authored “Embracing The Entitled” Featured in Hotels In New York

Scott Samuels is CEO of Horizon Hospitality – A member of the Sanford Rose Associates® network of offices, an executive search firm located in Leawood, KS. They specialize in hospitality recruiting for hotels, resorts, private clubs, restaurants and other hospitality-related venues. The following is an article published in Hotels In New York

Plano, TX 10/30/2018

Be honest; when you read the title of our SRA Update, did it immediately conjure up an image of a selfie-taking, social media addicted, text-obsessed millennial? Before we go any further, let us first take a moment and apologize to the recent generation entering the workforce. Turns out, there may not be any increase at all in narcissism over the past few decades. In a scientific analysis of approximately one-half million high-school seniors over three decades, Brent Donnellan and Kali Trzesniewski of the University of Western Ontario argue teens today are no more egotistical (and actually, just as happy and content) as previous generations.

“We concluded that, more often than not, kids these days are about the same as they were back in the mid-1970s,” said Donnellan, associate professor of psychology. They also stated that their findings show that entitlement changes dramatically with maturity in comparison to nominal generational changes. In other words, it’s not that people born after 1980 are self-absorbed – it’s that young people are, and they get over themselves as they get older.

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