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Suzy Welch on Making Career (and Life) Decisions
The author and wife of Jack Welch discusses her personal strategy for making important decisions, the true value of business school, and why she feels her work stands on its own, famous husband or not. What exactly is 10-10-10? It’s a way...
Tags: MBA, Career, MoneyWatch, 4-Hour Work Week, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Suzy Welch, Decision-Making, Jack Welch, 10-10-10, Gen X, Millennials, Success, Work Life Balance, Michelle V. Rafter
Articles 2009-04-27

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Gen X is Unhappy at Work
Gen X is Unhappy at WorkGen X is ready for a changeI am in the same generation as you, we are now referred to as the J generation. In between the Boomers and Xs. I devoted more and more of my time to the Fortune company I worked for. I...
Tags: Generation X
Discussion threads 2008-05-15
Boomers, Gen-X and Gen-Y: a Failure to Talk
The Find: Between the feature package on managing Gen Y and the vehement reaction to Sean Silverthorne’s post about Gen X being unhappy at work, generational conflict has been getting a lot of attention on BNET lately, but a new study suggests all this inter-generational angst...
Tags: Generation Y, Generation X, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-06-06
Gen X 'Saves the World'
Another note on Generation X, this time more positive. They may be the bashful 'dark-horse' generation between the limelight-hogging Boomers and Millenials, but X-ers are behind some of the most radical social media businesses in the world. This is the upshot of the fantastically named book, 'X...
Tags: BNET UK Staff, Business, Jeff Gordinier, Social Media, Generation X, Google Inc.
Blog posts 2008-06-23
Does Gen X Have a Future in Business?
Generation X is starting to wonder about its future in business management. What?, you say. Isn't this the cohort poised to pull the levers of power out of the wrinkled, spotted hands of the Boomer Generation as its shuffles en masse into retirement? ...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Erickson, Generation X
Blog posts 2007-12-13
Gen X is Unhappy at Work
Workers in their 30s and early 40s, otherwise known as Generation X, are growing unhappy with corporate life and planning a retreat, says Tammy Erickson, an expert on generational work force issues. That's bad news for their employers, who are looking to this cohort as next generation leaders. ...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Generation X, Cohort
Blog posts 2008-05-15
CPSC, Gen-X Sports Incorporated announce recall of skateboard ramp.
M2 PRESSWIRE-8 November 2002-US CPSC: CPSC, Gen-X Sports Incorporated announce recall of skateboard ramp C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11072002 Washington, D.C -- In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC, Gen-X Sports Inc., of Toronto, Ontario, ...
Tags: Ontario, Toronto, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Research articles 2002-11-08
Why Gen X Will Save the Planet
Not to put too much pressure on you dear readers born in then 1970s and 1980s, but you've got a big stinking pile to clean up and not much time to waste. Endangered planet. Economies in chaos. Terrorism. Massive debt. Massive poverty, just to name a few calamities awaiting your...
Tags: Generation X, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-07-31
Use the Right Incentives for Gen X, Gen Y, and Boomers | HBR IdeaCast
Sure, salary is important for everyone, but when it comes to other incentives â€" such as job flexibility, learning on the job, or working remotely â€" Gen X, Gen Y, and Boomers are all going to respond differently. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy and...
Tags: Job, Incentive, Generation X, Generation Y, BNET Staff
Blog posts 2009-08-19
Is Gen X Feeling the Squeeze?
Gen X is increasingly fed up with playing second fiddle to the Boomers on the one hand and competing with the brash and generally cheaper to hire Gen Y on the other. As a result, they're less loyal and more likely to change jobs. So much for the stereotype of...
Tags: Job, Generation X, Generation Y, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2009-11-16
Not Your Mother's Retirement Savings; Allstate Survey Shows Gen-X Women Take an Early, Aggressive Look at Their Finances
Business Editors NORTHBROOK, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 12, 2003 When it comes to finances, the women of Generation X are living the lives their grandmothers dreamed of and ones their mothers strived to achieve, a recent survey by Allstate shows. Having grown up on the heels of the liberation...
Tags: Allstate Corp., finance, financial, survey, women
Research articles 2003-11-12
What Gen X wants
NEW YORK AP -- A recent study commissioned by Catalyst, a New York-based women's advocacy group, refutes a common assumption that the majority of those born between 1964 and 1975 are not as driven or loyal in their work as prior generations. In the study of more than 1,200 Gen...
Tags: Associated Press, Cadillac, EMI Group Plc., houseware, Virgin
Research articles 2002-01-24
The ABC"s of Gen X for Librarians - Generation Xers as library employees
What Sets the Gen X Employee Apart from the Rest? JODI LUNCHES ON HAMBURGERS AND FRIES OR A FRENCH DIP SANDWICH, dresses in GAP clothes, listens to rock, and says, "you rock!" when she is pleased with what she hears. Mary Ellen lunches on yogurt and fruit, dresses in...
Tags: ABC Inc., job, training
Research articles 2001-02-01
Cambridge Consultants to Unveil New Licensing Program For Dry Powder Inhaler 'Gen-X' Development Tools and Technology at the Respiratory Drug Delivery Conference
Development Platform Dramatically Reduces Time-to-Market for Inhalable Drug Delivery Products CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Accelerating the creation of new inhalable drug delivery devices, Cambridge Consultants (www.cambridgeconsultants.com) is announcing the licensing of a range of technology development tools today at the Respiratory Drug Delivery Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The company's Gen-X...
Tags: Cambridge Consultants Inc.
Research articles 2008-05-12
3 Ways to Connect With Gen-Y Workers
3 Ways to Connect With Gen-Y WorkersJust Gen Yers?This restlessness would seem to apply to Gen Xers as well too, no? (or is it just anyone who isn't yet loaded down with a lot of debt and responsibilities that make them resigned to a day of work drudgery?)RE: 3 Ways...
Tags: career, Gen Y-ers, Gen-Y worker, Generation Y, Generation X
Discussion threads 2008-04-29
Generation X Is Now In Charge
Generational experts will quibble whether Barack Obama is a boomer or Generation X, but we all know in our hearts he is an X man at the core. So next week the first Gen X president will be sworn into office. It's a pattern of promotion being...
Tags: President, Generation X, Barack Obama, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-01-15
The Truth About Managing Generations X and Y
All of them are obsessed with technology. None of them have any company loyalty. These are but two of the workplace stereotypes about Generation X (born between 1965 and 1976) and Generation Y (born between 1977 and 1986). Stereotypes aside, what makes these 23 to 44 year olds give their best...
Tags: Generation X, Generation Y, Worker, Nancy Ahlrichs, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-28
Gen Y: Disengaged -- Except in India
Lack of authority and an inability to see where their contribution fits into the big picture is leaving Generation Y, or Millennials, disengaged and disenchanted with work, according to a report by BlessingWhite. Surveying more than 7,500 people and interviewing 40 HR and line managers, the report...
Tags: Job, India, Generation Y, BlessingWhite, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2008-08-12
Will Your Gen Y Workers Be Your Economic Salvation?
Will Your Gen Y Workers Be Your Economic Salvation?RE: Will Your Gen Y Workers Be Your Economic Salvation?even beign born in the middle of crisis is not an indicative that you know how to handle with it. That would be better if you can mix both experience and newbies to...
Tags: Generation Y, Gen-Y Workers Be, economic salvation, salvation
Discussion threads 2008-10-28
Is Gen-Y a Sales Job Wasteland?
BNET just published a highly amusing feature article package on Gen-Y, aka the so-called Millennials. I personally find such categorizations (Gen-X, Gen-Y, Boomers, etc) fairly bogus because the difference between the generations seems fairly microscopic to me, all things considered. For example, every one of the...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Sales, Sales Strategy, Generation Y
Blog posts 2008-05-21
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