Just letting you know that my latest article is up at Management Issues. I really believe that at least in the Western world, we are seeing a generation gap bigger than the one in the 1960s that got the phrase coined in the first place.  All that consultant talk- it’s not just talk. Companies and managers ignore it at their peril.
With a wife who is older than I am and a teenage daughter I’m living with this at home… and work is no sanctuary. people in the same workplace are living in different worlds which makes it really hard to schedule lunch.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Post to the Management Issues blog, post here… drop me a line and let me hear YOUR stories of workplace differences and how they manifest themselves…..what’s causing problems and what wonderful synergies have you found? Success stories are great when you have them.
IRONY ALERT: The group that complained about the generation gap int he first place, are now the incumbents and are becoming rapidly out out touch with the way the world works now, politically and technologically. As managers, we have a responsibility to keep the best of both generations in the workplace and facilitate working through the differences. So there…

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