Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Web on mar 1st, 2010
*By Carol Phillips
I recently finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book, Eat Pray Love. The book chronicles Gilbert’s literal and figurative spiritual journey toward a deeper relationship with God, but never actually reveals which if any religion speaks to her yearning. Gilbert, a Gen X’er, seems to have a lot in common with Gen Y.
New [...]
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By Blake Sunshine*
I do not feel like an adult. I support myself, have a job and live 818 miles away from my Mom and Dad, but I still feel like a child most every day. And I know I’m not the only one. Millennials everywhere are having a [...]
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Posted in Family, Generation, Generation Y on jan 8th, 2010
Grace Boyle*
I grew up listening to stories from my father, who against his will was sent to fight in Vietnam, grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, saw the fight for civil rights and often disagreed against conventionalism from his parents. During that time there was a large uproar for change and the generation [...]
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By Ines Schinazi
Ines: What do you think the workplace will look like in 5 years? Many generational experts seem to think that we are moving away from traditional corporate structures and into a world of freelancers…Do you think this is the case?
Bruce: I’m not a futurist. I’d say that work is [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Family, Generation Y on dez 8th, 2009
By Ines Schinazi
Like was said in the post bellow, here goes the second part of the interview with Bruce Tulgan, the founder of Rainmaker Thinking Inc., best-selling author and the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Toastmaster’s International Golden Gavel, in an exclusive interview with Talking About Generations:
Ines: How do the aspects of [...]
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By Ines Schinazi
Parents have never been so influential in their children’s decisions as they are today. Many parents actually accompany their children to job interviews. Some even make a point of dropping them off on the first day of work. Parents regularly complain about heir children’s grades and shamelessly ask bosses [...]
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By Manuela Mesquita
“Guysssss can you pay attention please?!”” This is the request, verging on begging, which is so typical of a High School teacher. Capturing the attention of young people has never been easy, not even when the world was slow, and there was no technology to dream along with.
If it wasn’t [...]
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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 bit [...]
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By Flávia Vianna
Once upon a time there was a little girl named @littleredridinghood. Little red riding hood’s mother walked by her daughter’s bedroom and warned:
Honey, your grandmother is sick. Let’s go visit her?
So @littleredridinghood sadly glanced at the chaos of her flickering AIM, MSN, and twitter messages. She didn’t respond to her [...]
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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 [...]
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