Generational Conflict Is Resolvable: A Review of Sticking Points by Haydn Shaw
In my possession are various books, each one profiling one generation. Several hundred pages would have to be devoured in order to grasp the four generations currently in today’s workforce. What Haydn Shaw does is address these four generations in summary form in one 288 page volume. He begins by giving various anecdotes from his teaching seminars to employers and managers. Traditionalists and Boomers complain about the younger generations and Generation X’ers gripe about the Boomers above them or the Millennials below them. He offers insight and solutions in every case, seeking to open the understanding of corporations and their leadership teams as to what makes each one of these divergent groups tick and how to get them to work together. Having come from different times, each generation has strengths and perspectives relative to that time. Shaw compares it to entering someone else’s country and learning their ways rather than insisting on one’s own customs while on their tur...