July 30th, 2009
The four discrete generations now present in the workforce get lots of attention for (and pay lots of attention to!) their differences. All sorts of ways of looking at the differences keep cropping up.
My turn to offer one: time and space.
Why not simplify the differences by bringing them all down to the Traditionalists’, Baby Boomers’, Generation X’s and Millennials’ different perceptions of time and space? Here’s how:
SPACE

And Work…Traditionalists and Boomers [...]
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July 27th, 2009

Dan Schawbel
Thanks to Dan Schawbel, who posted The Top 10 Social Networks for Generation-Y on mashable.com
So, why do I thank Dan? If you manage others and they are members of another generation, you don’t know as much about them as you could. Perhaps not as much about them as you should. That means about their values, their interests, their styles (not just clothes!), their passions, their way(s) of thinking. [...]
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Tags: Communication, engage, generation y
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