by Jamie Notter | Sep 11, 2007 | Generational Diversity
Cam Marston has an article in Fast Company about myths about the younger generations. Finally! I heard Marston speak at the ASAE Membership and Marketing symposium a couple of years ago, and I wasn’t too impressed. I felt he was playing up the negative stereotypes of...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 28, 2007 | Generational Diversity
My last post generated quite a few comments. I think this generational issue—the affinity that Boomers share with Millennials—will continue to get attention in the next few years. I didn’t cover this issue in my e-book. It felt a little too detailed or theoretical to...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 27, 2007 | Generational Diversity
The Future of Work Blog pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal about how Baby Boomers can learn about succeeding in the workplace from Generation Y. I do like the notion that mentoring is a two-way street, and the points in the article are all good ones...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 7, 2007 | Generational Diversity
I just had another article on Generations published—this time in Cooperative Housing Bulletin, a newsletter put out by the National Association of Housing Cooperatives. It draws heavily, as you might imagine, from the work I put into my e-book on this subject, but it...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 3, 2007 | Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity
I am glad to see that William Strauss and Neil Howe have an article about generations in the current Harvard Business Review. I’ve always felt their book, Generations, was the best on this topic—but it was also quite “old” (published in 1991). They hadn’t even named...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 28, 2007 | Conflict, Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity
Thanks to Jeff for pointing me to a great blog post by Tammy Erickson about conflict between Generation X and Baby Boomers. I had missed the PBS documentary called “Boomer Century,” that aired in March, but apparently it riled up a few of my fellow Xers. A Gen X...