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Why you should be glad if your next boss is a young striver

Today’s newest workers have overcome hurdles that would have seemed preposterous to their older colleagues

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    • Gen Z workers are more than twice as likely to want to be chief executive as Gen X-ers in their 40s and 50s, according to consulting firm McKinsey.
    • Gen Z workers are more than twice as likely to want to be chief executive as Gen X-ers in their 40s and 50s, according to consulting firm McKinsey. PHOTO: PIXABAY

    Pilita Clark

    Published Sun, Aug 31, 2025 · 10:55 PM

    IF YOU live in London with a mildly fanatical supporter of Arsenal football club, as I do, you would have heard a lot lately about Max Dowman, the 15-year-old who just became the second-youngest Premier League player in history.

    He would have been the youngest, except his Arsenal teammate Ethan Nwaneri was 54 days younger when he played his first league game in 2022.

    Controversially, both have faced league safeguarding rules banning them from changing with the rest of the team in the main dressing room on match days, which a lot of Arsenal fans think is nuts. 

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