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By Blake Sunshine It can be tough to be a Millennial at work. Especially when you are working with people who are 10 to 30 years older than you. And while Millennials sometimes get a bad reputation, we know that we bring value to the workplace. Of course, it’s important that we play nice with [...]

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By Grace Boyle My co-worker and close friend, Tara is Gen X. She pokes fun because I’m Gen Y. I laugh it off. It’s funny. We don’t have any other riffs besides our generational jokes. At the startup I work for, we’re about 30% Gen Y, 60% Gen X and 10% Boomers. I’m one of [...]

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By Poliana de Oliveira* Growing up as an immigrant child is funny. Especially in the US where t here are tons of us. You are raised at home with a set of principles that aren’t necessarily those of the country you live in and so you think it’s funny when people at school have different [...]

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By Rachel Glickhouse I “met” Eline Kullock through a social networking site. She asked me to write a guest post for the blog. I found Eline to be extremely interesting, intelligent, and a hard worker (she is the President of Grupo Foco in Sao Paulo). So here I am, “guest blogging…” People like to talk [...]

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As I was growing up, my family always ate meals together, around a table. Today, people may say that I’m nostalgic for a time that isn’t relevant to our present moment. After all, today our kids have classes, work, and a packed schedule.  Parents arrive late from work, and microwaves really facilitate our day-to-day.

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By Andy Teach It’s funny how sometimes we miss the most obvious things in the workplace. I was an executive in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. As a Baby Boomer, I managed many members of Generation Y during that time. If I had any difficulties managing a Gen Y’er, I always assumed that [...]

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Eline Kullock This week I gave a lecture in Cuiabá, Brazil. I have a business partner there. Lorena Lacerda, is the director of Grupo Valure Shealso organizes “Officina do Conhecimento,” an event that takes place every two months.

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The song “comonossospais” (“Like our Parents”), written by Belchoir, and sung by Elis Regina, holds great significance, when it comes to thinking about generations. The lyrics reveal the immense gap between the singer and her parents. Even more interestingly, the song also expresses the huge gap between young people today and their parents.

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Last week, I gave a lecture at “Volkswagen.”  I’m excited to saythat we’ve established aTrainee Program with them for the second year in a row.  My talk focused on the differences between generations.  I find this topic particularly important and relevant for a company who is just beginning its trainee program. I strongly believe that [...]

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As children, we learn that fear is a perfectly acceptable and normal emotion. As we watch young kids, it’s rather funny that they sometimes fear the most harmless things. As adults, we are able to ease their fears, and calm them down. But what about when we grow up? Who helps us overcome our adult [...]

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