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December 7, 2018 Baby Boomers / Generation X / Latest Post / Millennials / Recent Posts

The Gifts that Keeps on Giving

This time of year, I look forward to my annual viewing of “A Christmas Story”. Apart from being a completely endearing movie–well-written, narrated and performed–I always appreciated Ralphie’s quest to

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August 31, 2018 Latest Post / Millennials / Recent Posts / Women

Wings, with a side of objectification

A few weeks ago, a story resurfaced from last year reporting that the Hooters restaurant chain was closing stores around the country due to decreased business. The culprit? Millennials (of

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August 3, 2018 Generation Z / Latest Post / Millennials / Recent Posts

Keep on Truckin’, Millennials

Millennials are accused of killing everything from cereal to chain restaurants to big box home improvement stores. True, the desires and expectations of this generation may be forcing some industries

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July 20, 2018 Baby Boomers / Generation X / Latest Post / Millennials / Recent Posts

Management in Action: Project Management Across the Generations

I am a project manager. Chances are, so are you. Project Manager is not my title. I am not a member of PMI nor do I have a degree in

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June 22, 2018 Latest Post / Millennials / Recent Posts

Sorry Millennials, your 30s suck

Before I turned 40 in 2013, I thought I might really struggle with it. I know myself to be somewhat vain, and getting older was something that my younger self

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April 27, 2018 Latest Post / Lifestyle / Millennials

Cereal Killers

A New York Times article from 2016 about declining sales of cold breakfast cereal cited a statistic that 40% of Millennials did not eat cereal for breakfast because it was

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March 16, 2018 Latest Post / Millennials / Recent Posts

Did you hear? You might be a Millennial.

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center ruled that if you were born between 1981 and 1996 you are considered to be a Millennial. This is different from what the

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January 19, 2018 Latest Post / Millennials

Networking Tips for Millennials (from a GenX-er)

When building a network is as easy as clicking a button, in-person networking seems almost quaint. Yet few people dispute the power of face-to-face connection, especially when it comes to

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December 15, 2017 Latest Post / Millennials

A Millennial’s Reply

As a GenXer, I am naturally skeptical of most things, including the ubiquitous hype that surrounds Millennials. Nearly every day I read how they are killing industries, saving cities, changing

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November 10, 2017 Employee Engagement / Millennials / Recent Posts / Work/Life Integration

But Millennials want different things, right?

I love Jeopardy. Growing up, I would play along with my parents, always relishing the few times I was able to beat Mom or Dad. These days I still try

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Heidi Marcin wasn't alive when Kennedy was shot, can vividly remember the Berlin Wall coming down, and doesn't care much for avocado toast. In other words, she is Generation X all the way.

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