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Is there a new generation gap? A disconnect between managers and their younger charges? Consider this real-life exchange, noted in a new book by consultants Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman. A middle-aged manager had come to the aid of a younger employee on a project. The cadet...
To Lancaster and Stillman, such anecdotes signify an important shift in the corporate world. The co-authors of When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work (HarperBusiness; 352 pages; $25.95) describe a work environment that is becoming ever more fractious. "For...
That may be changing, of course, amid recession and soaring unemployment. And Lancaster and Stillman sometimes come to wildly sweeping conclusions: "Millennials are a pragmatic generation with a highly developed ability to sort through information. All their lives, they've had data spewed at them from every direction at warp...
The authors had to overcome a gap of their own: Lancaster, 44, is a sage Boomer, while Stillman, 33, is a spirited Xer. "When we first worked together," Stillman says, "we would bump heads all the time. We came to realize it was really a generational clash." Stillman notes with...
"That's one of the misconceptions of this business," says Paul Lancaster, vice president for finance at Ballard Power Systems in Vancouver, Canada. "They've had a phenomenally rapid development. People overpromised them" before a consumer-compatible technology emerged. Ballard (2000 revenues: $41 million), partly owned by Daimler-Chrysler and...