Stay Young, My Friends. Recently between speaking engagements, I found myself with way too many hours to kill at the airport before my flight. Instead of pulling up to the counter and indulging in a few adult beverages, I decided to walk the terminals, do some people watching, and listen to ESPN’s 30 for 30…
Two-thirds of the workforce in the United States is disengaged at work. Yet when it comes to doing something about it and finding more meaningful work for themselves, the majority of people aren’t taking action. That is, unless you’re a Millennial. Millennials (and Gen Z) will apparently quit employers at the drop of a dime.…
(How we rebound) In a previous article, I outlined how Baby Boomers are quick to point fingers at Millennials for many of the issues the Baby Boomers created. I went so far as to call Baby Boomers “more self-centered than the self-centered Millennials they blame for everything.” We can have a different point of view…
The generation who messed it up for everyone else – Part 1 My heartbeat was elevating, and I could feel my anger-levels rising faster than a hungry infant as I clicked on the LinkedIn article. It was the perfect definition of a click-bait title, executed with precision. Even I had to sit back and admire…
When it comes to working with Millennials – or frankly anyone born post-Internet explosion – you’ve heard enough of the same stuff to bore an elephant. For example, I’m sure you’ve heard things like: Give them “fun” places to work. Have games, beanbag chairs, and free Redbulls in the fridge! Create a place where they…
What’s your experience with the different generations in your workplace? And is that even the conversation we should be having?
Let’s get this out of the way. We are going to indulge in some stereotypes throughout this conversation. Not everyone is exactly the same! Not all Millennials are tech-savvy Twitter mongrels. Not all Boomers are old, stodgy authoritarians. Everybody is an individual, so you can’t continually try to shove people into a box and blindly…
Hi everyone! I hope by now you’ve all adjusted to either “life without kids in school” or “exactly the same as yesterday, but warmer”. In other words, SUMMER!! Easily my favorite season of the year, it’s half the reason we moved from the Midwest to Dallas a few years ago. (The other half was so…
December is upon us…finally!!! We’ve survived the November elections and returned to normalcy in our daily life: Facebook posts about cooking recipes, pictures of cute kittens, and still wondering why our parents can’t figure out how to use social media. Ahhh, the good ol’ days. (Ok, so maybe we haven’t returned to those days yet.…
Snapchat. I knew about it but never used it. Thought it was just a way for high school kids to send lewd photos of themselves that they would regret later when they realized the photo actually WAS saved somewhere. In the cloud. Or a cloud’s cloud. Whatever. I thought it was dumb. But recently I…