Lazy. Impetuous. Disrespectful. Unreliable. No, those aren’t the words that people today use to describe the millennial generation. Those are actually the words our parents’ generation used to describe us!

Now, there’s a new generation in town.

Millennials—those aged anywhere from 18 to 34 years old by most accounts—make up a significant majority of the current workforce. The smartest CEOs and business owners that I meet accept that this generation has different values and priorities than the ones before it. And instead of complaining about this fact, they are adjusting their employment practices to attract the best from this group ...