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How to Manage the Generation Gap

Understanding Gen Y, Gen X and baby boomers, and how to get the best from each.

 

June 06, 2008CIO

Different generations have different ways of working—and different expectations of their employers. Knowing how they differ can make all the difference when building your IT team.

Coaching Style Matters in Managing Millennials

Perks pale in comparison to challenging job responsibilities for Gen Y employees. Learning coaching basics can make the difference between mere compliance and active contribution and problem solving.

Gen Y, Gen X and the Baby Boomers: Workplace Generation Wars

As Boomer bosses relinquish the reins of leadership to Generation X, both are worrying about Generation Y. For the good of the enterprise, everyone needs to do a better job of getting along.

Generation X: Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate

How to leverage the mind-share of retiring Baby Boomers to advance your career.

Management Techniques for Bringing Out the Best in Generation Y

They're your high-maintenance, entitled, technologically sophisticated and fickle new talent pool. Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, is also potentially the most high-performing generation in decades. Here's the lowdown on what makes them tick and how to work most effectively with them.

Employers Change Corporate HR Policies to Cater to Generation Y, Survey Finds

The younger generation's entitled attitude (think pay and benefits) is clashing with older workers' values. Ultimately, however, Generation Y's presence is improving workplace policies for everyone.

Leading IT with the Next Generation

Gen Y: "Connected wirelessly 24/7. Empowerment is an expectation; I can be my own boss. Flexibility is an entitlement. That is, you conform to me, or I'm gone."

Leadership and Generation X

How understanding the relevance of generational dynamics can invigorate your leadership potential.

Young CIOs: They're Smart, Ambitious and They're Going to Take Your Job!

CEOs are hungry for talent they can nurture. Learn how this new generation of CIOs—aged 25, 33 and 36—climbed the corporate ladder so quickly.

Plan for Succession

After you, who? To create a culture of succession in your shop use this checklist to lay the foundation.

How to Develop the Next Generation of IT Leaders

Retirement, outsourcing and a tight talent supply are thinning IT's leadership ranks. CIOs talk about the problem and share tactics for growing tomorrow's leaders.

A Proud Member of the LinkedIn Generation

How one baby boomer executive learned to love the social network for business contacts. Don't ask him to be a Facebook friend, though.

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Generation Gap or Innovation Gap?

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