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

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...

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...

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...

With Millennials expected to comprise at least half of the workforce by 2020, and Gen Z becoming an ever-larger percentage of employees every year, the key t...

Gen Z and Millennials have come to expect their favorite corporations to take daring social stands—and any potential divisiveness of the stand itself is usua...

To attract and keep young employees, few things are as vital to today’s companies as transparency. Frankly, that is true of all human communications. Human b...

There are certain fundamental truths about human beings and how they deal with change. If you attended business school, you likely learned about the J Curve....

Millennials and Gen Z value a workplace that provides autonomy, equality, and fairness. However, they are not loyal to any one company. Millennials started e...

Advertising has always reflected the likes and dislikes of younger audiences. Since its inception, it has been a youth driven industry that is primarily focu...

Some people may take issue with me lumping Millennials and Gen Z together in one book, as if they are a single entity. Volumes have been written about both o...

There is currently little consensus on the age ranges of these two generations. Millennials are generally thought of as having been born between 1981 and 199...

If you look online and on LinkedIn, you will find a lot of Millennials and Gen Zs who serve as generational experts. They most certainly are. They know their...