Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Why City Council is not Millennial-friendly

1. They don't share information and data.
2. They don't agree on goal-setting.
3. They are negative when at work. It is not a creative or positive workplace from what I saw when I watched the budget meeting.
4. They won't even decide on goals before making drastically important decisions.
5. The prothonatary isn't assertive with them. They don't work as a team.
6. They often only listen to people who have "paid their dues".
7. They allow for negativity.
8.Many of them throw wet blankets on new ideas.
9. They're not inclusive.
10. They don't understand the difference between live streaming and vodcasting.
11. They haven't used their time on city council to get an associates degree, at the very least. I say this because many of them don't have a college degree.
12. They don't listen to people such as economists.
13. They're not open-minded.
14. They aren't very diverse.
15. I was told by one Chief-of-Staff that his boss, "doesn't take the bloggers seriously and neither does he."
16. They don't try many new things.
17. They tend to talk to people my age when they want to get them in their bed...or they want the young people to be their minions.
18. I wouldn't evaluate them as a group that will achieve a goal together.
19. "Millennials are looking for leaders with honesty and integrity." Do I really need to expand on how that relates to City Council?
20. Goals are not clearly stated, progress is not always assessed, success factors are not explicitly described and stated.

I do not mean this for everyone on council. Bill Peduto and Patrick Dowd definitely stood out to me as Millenial-friendly and they have since I've known them.

-Agent Ska-

1 comment:

Mark Rauterkus said...

Right on.

You don't mean prothonatary above, however. That word should be "Controller" (Michael Lamb). He used to have that job with Allegheny County until it was removed with row-office reform.

This boils down to "philosophy." That's an age old area of thought. They don't need the same philosophy -- they just need to be aware of thought and process that gives reason of it being grounded in a philosophy.

They act without logic.

Where they are coming from and where they are going is not tied to a greater picture of the landscape of Pittsburgh at this millennial-time.