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By Sarah Newton There is no doubt that the work force has become so much more diverse in every way. From the amount of different generations, the retirement age higher than ever and the gap between young and old and their beliefs of and use of technology have created some big canyons that employers have [...]

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By Sarah Newton* As I work with more and more companies, I am seeing something that is very striking; a lack of what I would call a Young Worker Friendly policy. I work a lot with the service, catering and leisure industry which, let’s face it, lives on young employees and yet, for some reason, [...]

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By Sarah Newton* I spend a lot of time coaching Gen X on how to handle Gen Y. You see, even though the generations follow each other, they really are poles apart. For all the times that Gen Y were told they could succeed and do anything, Gen X were told not to show off, [...]

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By Cíntia Reinaux A brilliant text written by Rubem Alves* uses a metaphor to explain why parents should be a bit more strict with their kids. Alves jokes that parents today wouldn’t be able to stand Michelangelo. They would say, what does Michelangelo have against marble? Alves states, “…he had something against marble, because inside [...]

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By Tatiana Kielberman Sometimes we assume that everybody knows the basic terminology which classifies generations, and we forget that there are many people who have trouble understanding the classifications and characteristics of each one. In a chat with my older brother, I realized that I know more about this theme than he does. He’s a [...]

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By Eline Kullock I just read an article on Folha On Line in which an actress, wearing a short dress (not even that short in the eyes of a baby boomer,) went to various prestigious Brazilian Universities (including the Law School at USP, FMU at University Ibriapuera, and PUC).  The actress, pretending to be a [...]

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By Mauro Segura This is a question that has always haunted me. It still does. The roots of the question go even deeper: what do I want to get out of life? This philosophical question should be a question everyone asks. I don’t believe in simply letting life take over, relying completely on destiny, and [...]

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By Rudney Pereira Junior Sometimes I feel like the “lost link” caught in the middle of generations. Like a fossil, stuck between the monkey and the human being. Archeologists searching for me in the heat of African deserts. If you’re into definitions, I belong to generation X. But I feel as though I’m part of [...]

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By Manuela Mesquita Have you heard of the Gen Y that doesn’t understand or know the meaning of processes? They are used to getting everything now. They like things to be easy and quickly resolved. You probably have. That’s where I’d like to start this post. A few weeks ago, I had a very unique [...]

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By Flávia Vianna It’s incredible how a tool used to send messages through 140 characters can be used to update us, convey emotion, encourage thinking, reflection, and laughter, or “all of the above.” A few weeks ago, I got a post through Twitter talking about a mom who went into an electronics store and asked [...]

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