Age and generational issues

Younger people’s brains just aren’t as good at dealing with stress.

Seven strategies to engage, support, and connect.

Start by reworking your job descriptions.

Many companies consider age a competitive disadvantage. Here’s why they’re wrong.

It’s both a culture and policy question.

The most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings.

Are tensions between different generations escalating? In organizations, lack of trust between older and younger workers often yields a culture of competition...

Both people and companies will have to get more flexible.

Night sweats. Heart palpitations. Crying jags. Mood swings. I'm a 55-year old woman, well and gratefully past that hormonal "change of life." So what...

It’s still the channel with the highest ROI.

Don’t dwell on your differences.

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Summit, the inaugural event of the Frances Hesselbein Global Academy for Student...

If you’re a Millennial, or manage one, here’s the reality of what this generation wants.

Judging from how they're portrayed in the media, it would be easy to dismiss family businesses as hotbeds of power-playing, backstabbing, and favor-currying,...

As business leaders pick up the post-recession pieces, I’m increasingly asked how companies can restore trust with employees. My answer: only by instituting new talent management approaches that reflect the reality of today’s relationship between employees and the corporation. Until roughly fifty years ago, there was a tacit understanding between employees and corporations: If employees […]

If your company operates in developed countries, chances are you're worrying about the effects of aging on your workforce. Mostly, public debate is focusing...

They’re ready to commit to their employers — and want the same in return.

Here’s the bad news for Gen X: at each point thus far, you’ve drawn a pretty short straw. Your timing — at least in the context of contemporary generations, and through no fault of your own — could hardly have been worse. Not only did your childhood years coincide with social changes that significantly eroded […]

Research shows they have one foot out the door.

On race, gender, age, and other issues.