The Gamer Disposition
The February 2008 HBR also had their annual list of "breakthrough ideas." John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas wrote about the "Gamer Disposition." Although they don't mention it, this has been cited as a generational ...
Category: Generational Diversity
Generation X Saves the World?
Suzanne Kart of the Generation Xpert blog put up a GREAT video (nine minutes long) of Jeff Gordinier talking about Generation X. Gordinier has written a book with a super title: X Saves The World: How Generation X Got th ...
Love Your Customers and Members but Ignore Your Employees?
I listened to a virtual seminar last week that ASAE & The Center put on about engaging members and staff of younger generations. Since I have a book on the topic, I was interested to hear how this author, Michael Mue ...
Nice Essay about Generation X
Check out this well-written essay by Helen Mosher about Generation X and the value we bring as "translators" between Boomers and Millennials. It not only talks about some interesting dynamics that I have also n ...
Millennials Speak! (Or at least blog)
One of my main mantras in the conversation about generational diversity has been the power of actually having conversations. The generalizations we can read about in books are all well and good, but the real power is in ...
Generations and Technology
Generational diversity has been a popular topic at the ASAE & The Center Technology conference. People are obviously aware that the youngest generation in the workforce (and most of your association's future members) ...
Clear Writing Strikes a Nerve!
Wow! Eleven comments! My last post on clear writing seems to have struck a nerve. I will write more on it (well, I hope!), but first I wanted to share something that an actual member of the millennial generation said abo ...
Clear Writing
I gave a presentation to an association Board on Friday about generational differences. During the discussion, one of the Board members (who had described himself as one of the oldest in the room) made a point that he wa ...
Yet Another Article on Generational Diversity
I have an article in the most recent Journal of Association Leadership on the topic of generational diversity. It's online here (not sure if you have to be a member to access it). It covers some (but not all!) of the mat ...
Good Article about Millennials
I found a nice article about the Millennial generation in the workforce from PC World Canada. It is merely one perspective on this generation (that is still defining itself, actually), but it seems balanced to me and doe ...