Question: How do you, and should you, adjust your leadership approach for different generations and different work ethics?

Answer: You adjust your leadership style to the person you are leading, full stop. If you have a genuine interest in them as a person then you will learn about who they are and what burns inside them. The generation they are from is irrelevant.

You may need to learn from them what their values are, but in my experience values don’t change a great deal from generation to generation, though they may be expressed differently – which makes it interesting.

Regarding work ethic, if you don’t have a good one, I will try and find one in you. If you don’t play ball then work somewhere else.