Context: I asked Pink specifically about the push-back from managers and a workforce made up of Baby-Boomers, who on the message boards aren’t at all shy about demanding that Gen Y “conform.”

Pink is not alone in his assertions. In fact, if you take a look at Chapter 8 in Karl Kapp’s Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning book, IMHO Kapp very accurately suggests the mindset of how a gamer (substitute “Gen Y” with caution) approaches the notion of a boss: a boss is either a coach and mentor …

GenY workers are going to need to come into the workplace and approach their older coworkers, managers and peers in ways that make them “user-friendly.” I’ve been fortunate enough to land in an environment where the favor is returned many-fold, which is to say — the boomers I work with and for take an active interest in not just “what” I’m saying…. but “why.” I think that’s a pretty good start for a survival guide to working across generations over the next several years. Thanks to this economy, we’re all going to be working together a lot longer than anyone thought

Interesting, INTERESTING brain dump from Elliott Masie on “Talent 2.0.”
One of the things Don Tapscott (Wikinomics) was very passionate about yesterday was about the future of talent management and retention. Elliott shared some pretty radical but insanely genius points that I’m sure he’s collected from a host of people over the conference.
What if your company had a hiring model where you weren’t trying to hold onto people for 30 years? What if you only tried to hold onto workers for three years and embraced the fact that your talent …

“Wikinomics” is up for a Pulitzer Prize for Business literature.
How are youngsters changing the way we think about talent? Training, retention, collaboration and managing them? Within this new culture, there is a new culture of work and therein will lie the answers of how to accomplish this.
Myspace has 220 million members, growing at 2 million members a week. 85% of all college students are on Facebook (700,000 in Toronto alone). But this is no longer about getting online — this is now about a new mode …