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#Socialdistancing is not precisely what we are doing… and that is not a bad thing. What we are doing is physically distancing while...

Blog about 4 things companies can do to facilitate multigenerational understanding and collaboration.

Blog post about Millennial job hopping, which is not as frequent as we think it is.

For companies, understanding Millennials and Gen Z workers is more and more vital by the day. But just how similar—or different—are these two groups, especia...

Gen Z—and to a somewhat lesser extent, Millennials—have grown up in a world where virtually everything is available immediately on demand at their fingertips...

I mentor several younger women who work in a variety of fields, including management consulting, communications, software development, and real estate, among...

I spoke on a panel this week for the European American Chamber of Commerce about hiring practices in the United States. The audience comprised the Consul Gen...

I had a conversation at dinner with a colleague about the different ways younger and older generations communicate. Broadly speaking, Millennials prefer emai...

Today, young adults do not have to go looking for news. News goes looking for them. What do I mean by that? The best way to explain it is by regaling you wit...

The Great Recession of 2008 affected all of us, but if you want to understand why young adults have no interest in jobs in Corporate America, you need look n...

They may be young, but Gen Z now accounts for 40% of consumers and already influences between $29 billion and $143 billion in direct spending. Since the youn...

The one thing companies can be grateful for this Thanksgiving... The massive change in the marketplace thanks to Millennials and Gen Z. Why? Because change f...

I gave a leadership talk this morning to an angel investment group of mostly Boomer and Silent Generation women about managing five generations in the workpl...

As a Gen Xer, I have been around long enough to remember corporate retreats as schmoozy events in La Jolla or Miami, where only senior level executives went ...

Labor unions in the United States are almost as old as the country itself. Having started as early as 1778, labor unions protect workers from abusive conditi...

Mentoring can be an incredibly valuable vehicle for sharing knowledge and insight among employees, but it needn't just be the older teaching the younger. Mil...

More lists! Millennials are the largest generation in the workforce today. They are between the ages of 23 and 38, and they have radically changed the way we...

Everybody loves lists! Here are five things you can do to recruit and retain Gen Z talent, who are critical to the future of your business. 1. Modernize comm...

In August 2018, I predicted that we would have a recession in the U.S. in 18 to 24 months. I was writing a paper for a capital markets class at Harvard, whic...

For the first time ever, we have five generations in the workforce. Not surprisingly, this is leading to a lot of misunderstandings and miscommunications. We...