Posted in Artikullocks, Social Network, Web on out 21st, 2009
By Tatiana Kielberman In the last weeks a phenomenon has swept over social networks in Brazil. Nothing unexpected, especially because as social-network-addicts know, it’s impossible to predict what crazily cool thing they’ll come up with next. Allowing Orkut contacts (currently the most popular social network in Brazil) to be transferred to Facebook, is a monumental [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Generation, Job on out 15th, 2009
By Ines Schinazi John G. Drozdal, Ed.D., is Principal Consultant and President of The Drozdal Company – an organization development and training firm that specializes in generational issues in the workplace, manager/leader development, team building, executive coaching, and conflict transformation. A complete description of the company’s services is available at www.drozdalcompany.com. Dr. John Drozdal is [...]
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By Tatiana Kielberman The other day, I read a poem by Luiz Fernando Veríssimo that could easily have been a mirror, reflecting my self. Working for the blog, I’m used to receiving many texts that talk about generational conflicts, and yet very few of them are straight to the point, or express in a direct [...]
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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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By Flavia Vianna* New illustration created by my intern. I signal over to him with my hand. Removing the phone, which is usually glued to my ear, making extra effort for a “personal approach,” and “personal interaction” with him. He goes, “Ah….(popping chewing gum sounds)…check it out to see if this is cool.” So, I [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Generation, Job on out 5th, 2009
By Zuza Seixas* When the workplace becomes a part of an autonomous sphere, it determines in people’s lives, the way they behave, as a being, separate from the larger body of a “we.” A series of myths appear, with terrors and hopes, on this blank sheet of paper, which with which we are all unfamiliar. [...]
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By Julianna Antunes* Yes. I’m going to write this in the first person. I’ve got some generation X in me, a bit of Generation Z, but I am in fact part of Generation Y. X, Y, Z. Where are we (young people who have just started entering the workplace) going to find ourselves in this [...]
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By Cory Huff* “This is Cory. He’s our social media guy,” says Manager to the new hires. “He gets paid to play on Facebook all day.” I just roll my eyes and tell the new hires to ignore him. I’m happy because I finally got the IT Manager to undo the block on social media [...]
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By Liliane Fonseca As a representative of the generation born in the 1980s, I feel an affinity in regards to this subject, and I feel it’s important to defend our perspectives, and to show what we can offer to other generations. Also, I’d like to speak to the rather harsh criticism we often receive for [...]
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By Silvana Avinami I’m over it. I can’t stand reading about one more Gen X manager who thinks that Gen Y is the worst generation of employees that has come along. And I cannot stand watching one more Baby Boomer manager roll their eyes as they complain that Gen Y is a group of spoiled, [...]
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