On October 7, 2009
Generations at War Like the 1960s? Really?
The usually staid Financial Times management blog swan dives into inflamed emotions this week with a post by the chairman of the UK’s Channel 4, Luke Johnson. His claim: relations between the generations in the workplace are more strained than at any time since the protest happy 1960s: It is not just the usual strife between ambitious youngsters and older incumbents waging a rearguard action to maintain their grip on power. Rather, this conflict reminds me of the battles between young and old in the 1960s over the Vietnam war, and the gulf of misunderstanding between them. Johnson explains that, especially in media, bosses who are likely to be in their 50s, “are unlikely to be ready to reinvent what…
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