By The Way, We’re Taking Over

06Feb09

According to Tammy Erickson, a McKinsey Award-winning author, who wrote recently on her blog, the Generation X is taking over: Although the median age of serving CEOs is mid-fifties, most senior leaders are first tapped in their late forties. The new CEOs selected this year are likely to be X’ers. Boomers — competitive, productive — [...]

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Mailbag #1: Gen-X Managers Vent

06Feb09

In even the scant few days this blog has been up, we’ve gotten emails from other Gen-X managers out there who are fed up and need to vent.  Names are withheld, of course, unless the emailer specified otherwise.  Emails have been edited for style, typos, and the like. Manager in Fashion Retail – I am [...]

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I Don’t Remember Sick Days

06Feb09

I am also a GenXer, who has managed and worked with several GenYer’s. I have to say that today, I am particularly frustrated with that generation. I don’t know about you, but when I was just starting out, trying to build my career and figure out what I was doing in a position that I may [...]

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Tags: expectations, GX2GY, professionalism, sick days, work-life balance

On Flexibility

04Feb09

According to this post on The Recruiter’s Lounge, companies (and by extension, managers like me) have to “offer flexibility” when managing Gen-Y employees: Offer Flexibility In a recent survey conducted by our company, over 58% of Gen Y rated flexibility as extremely important or very important to them. While we realize, it is not always [...]

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Tags: flexibility, work-life balance

The New Rules of Communication

04Feb09

Apparently, according to one Jenny Floren, the CEO and founder of Experience, one of the top trends in 2008 for managing Gen-Yers is for companies to change their communication style: 2. Communication style: Gen Y employees speak a different language, so hiring and department managers need to practice a new style of communicating. Gen Y [...]

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Tags: communication, professionalism

Why This Blog Was Born

03Feb09

I am a Gen-X’er, thirtysomething in age, born in the 70′s, who came of age during the Reagan years, was labeled the “slacker generation“, and finds himself suddenly in leadership and management positions.  I’m your Gen-X manager.  I’m not that much older than you; I’m tech-savvy like you; and culturally, we’re similar in many ways. [...]

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