Talkin’ About My Generation

From BusinessWeek.com’s Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work (my editing): Corporations really need Gen X—folks in their 30’s to early 40’s, who should begin to serve as our primary corporate leaders over the next couple years. But I fear many current corporate executives are taking this small and therefore precious group for granted. Why are many X’ers uncomfortable in corporate life? 1. X’ers’ corporate careers got off to a slow start and many are still feeling the pain. You graduated when the economy was slow and the huge bulge of Boomers had already grabbed most of the key jobs. As an article in the May, 1985 issue of… Read More

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