Three Essentials to Leading Someone from a Different Generation
By Tim Elmore Three Essentials to Leading Someone from a Different Generation I continue to hear stories of Boomer or Gen X managers who become frustrated at the audacity of Generation Z or Millennial team members. One manager said a young job candidate told him in her interview: “I’m going to have your job in eighteen months.” Similarly, young professionals tell me
Seven Strategies to Influence a Student’s Choices
By Tim Elmore A college dean recently acknowledged to me an obvious truth. He said, “The older I get, the more different students become.” He said this, tongue firmly planted in cheek, but I knew exactly what he meant. The generation gap, a term first coined by magazine editor John Poppy back in the 1960s, is more real today than ever. This