Archives for Boomers
Boomer Executives Dealing With Elderly Parents Need Sabbaticals
This past weekend, my mother moved her 95-year-old father from Ohio to Pensacola, Florida, and into an assisted living facility a couple of miles up the road from her house. She had two siblings helping her, but this was still a time-consuming, logistical ordeal. Have you ever prepared an almost-centurion to get through TSA? Have […]
Transformations: What Gen Y Wants and How Businesses Can Offer Them
Last Friday, I attended a compelling business presentation on “Turning Potential into Performance in Generation Y” by Dr. Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta- based non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. Tim talked about the different markets that have been established by the last five generations: The market for the “Greatest Generation” (1900-1928) […]
Rent a Boomer . . . and Other Workplace Changes by 2019
By 2019, Generation X – born from 1965 to 1978 - will have spent two decades seeking a nod from the Boomers holding senior decision-making jobs. But a little over nine years from now, that will end. Janet Reid, managing partner at Global Lead, a consulting firm that advises companies like PepsiCo and Proctor & […]
No Matter Your Generation: Sober Up and Forget Retirement
How long will you live? Stop dithering and find out. This calculator will change your life -http://calculator.livingto100.com/calculator or change the way you think about work and retirement. No matter how old or busy you are, you’ll anticipate that number popping up at the end - the one that tells you (based on genetics, health, stress, […]
Tired of the Hype and Lies: Boomers Who Love to Work … and Don’t Need the Money
The work-longer trend for Boomers has inspired its own brand of humor– “Die at Your Desk” “Work Till You Drop” “No Rest for The Weary”. Do you know a Boomer who is not weary? Who doesn’t have to work, but does? I bet you do. I’m one, and I just found out we’re a subgroup. […]
Business Sabbaticals for Gen Z? Oh My, the Race is On
Here they are - coming to a workplace near you soon. Born from the mid 1990s through the 2000s, they are typically the children of the youngest Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. Though this image depicts the oldest of the group - 14 years old or so - (the youngest is nine) - dress them […]
Bored Stiff by Boomers? Tough. And No, Gen Y, We Will Not Retire
An afternoon visit to a Gen Y blog site has me looking for an antacid. Why? Smoldering resentment from the younger generation about Boomers. “Couldn’t they just please retire so we can get some real work done.” “God, they think they are always right.” “And then he told this story about something that happened in […]