As a diagnosis of some of the major dysfunction coming out of modern parenting and education, you really can’t beat this 15-minute video discussion. It features Simon Sinek, an author and management/leadership consultant who made a relatively big splash with his 2009 book Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action and has been an in-demand speaker on the lecture circuit ever since.

Sinek says there is an entire generation out there which has been poorly developed by our educational system and our current cultural practices on parenting, and further poisoned by technology – and because they’re now entering the workforce with such poor preparation for the real world, it’s going to be up to corporate America to provide the social skills – what people in human resources will call “soft skills” – that will remedy the problems bad parenting and bad culture have caused.

Take some time out and watch this, because it’s excellent.