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How to Manage the Generation Gap

Understanding Gen Y, Gen X and baby boomers, and how to get the best from each.

Different generations have different ways of working-and different expectations of their employers. Knowing how they differ can make all the difference when building your IT team.

Gen Y, Gen X and the Baby Boomers: Workplace Generation Wars

As Boomer bosses relinquish the reins of leadership to Generation X, both are worrying about Generation Y. For the good of the enterprise, everyone needs to do a better job of getting along.

Generation X: Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate

How to leverage the mind-share of retiring Baby Boomers to advance your career.

Management Techniques for Bringing Out the Best in Generation Y

They're your high-maintenance, entitled, technologically sophisticated and fickle new talent pool. Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, is also potentially the most high-performing generation in decades. Here's the lowdown on what makes them tick and how to work most effectively with them.

Toxic Mix or Bit of a Mixed Blessing?

The younger generation's entitled attitude (think pay and benefits) is clashing with older workers' values. Ultimately, however, Generation Y's presence is improving workplace policies for everyone.

Talking 'bout Y Generation

They're the young and the restless - and they increasingly work for you. Their expectations aren't the same as previous generations of employees, so maybe it's time we starting listening to what they have to say.

Plan for Succession

After you, who? To create a culture of succession in your shop use this checklist to lay the foundation.

How to Develop the Next Generation of IT Leaders

Retirement, outsourcing and a tight talent supply are thinning IT's leadership ranks. CIOs talk about the problem and share tactics for growing tomorrow's leaders.

A Proud Member of the LinkedIn Generation

How one baby boomer executive learned to love the social network for business contacts. Don't ask him to be a Facebook friend, though.

Join the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.

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