Are You Sufficiently Talented at Managing Talent?
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Elsewhere in this, the Talent & Culture Issue of Advertising Age, a bunch of agencies, ad-tech shops and media companies offer their thoughts about office culture in response to questions that were lobbed at them by Ad Age reporters. Among the queries: “What skill is your most junior talent lacking?” and “What skill is your most senior talent lacking?”
Asking those two questions in concert — covering both the young’uns and the elders — was a good call. Over the summer, I learned what can happen if you don’t fairly and judiciously address everyone’s possible shortcomings in the same breath.
In June, as part of an AdAge.com series we called the Media Guy Mailbag, readers wrote in to ask me questions and I answered them — but in one case, I turned the tables. Leo Wong, then newly graduated from Syracuse, emailed, “What do you believe is an agency’s biggest pet peeve for an entry-level millennial who is just starting their career in media/advertising?”
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