By Bruce Tulgan

The post-war "Baby Boomers" who ruled the place of work of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties are, in line with the writer, being changed through the disenfranchised underachievers dubbed "Generation X". right here, the "slackers" are printed to be the simplest staff, consumers and leaders company has ever noticeable.

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I know that the best managers I had were the ones who were good teachers. Associate at an investment bank Xers are not arrogant Another reason why so many managers have a hard time fitting Xers into their management equation in the workplace is that 48 Common misconceptions about Generation X they misinterpret Xers' fierce individualism and entrepreneurial style as arrogance. Again, in marked contrast to the Baby Boomers, Xers' individualism has very little to do with rebelling against authority – our self-assuredness comes from a powerful sense that we have been able largely to fend for ourselves.

When Xers tuned into world politics, Ronald Reagan was Chapter 2 impugning the "evil empire" and, when we turned around, the Soviet empire was disintegrating. The maps we studied in high school and college are already obsolete. In the shadow of the unwinnable Viet Nam War, Xers watched with incredulity as CNN's version of the Gulf War looked like a video game mini-series. What is belonging in the age of miracle and wonder? Our cultural awareness got a false start during the imitation decade (the overly self-conscious and rather embarrassing seventies) and a false promise during the greed decade (the shameful eighties), so that Xers find ourselves, as adults in the nineties, with the responsibility to lead new trends having very little in our past from which to borrow.

Kurt Cobain killed himself – and his widow became a star. Now we listen to groups as diverse as Pearl Jam and Snoop Doggy Dogg, Stone Temple Pilots and the Cranberries. As the pace of our culture has been set by new technologies, so the pace of technological change in Xers' lifetime has been shocking. The mimeograph machines Xers remember from elementary school turned into high speed 36 Common misconceptions about Generation X copiers by the time we got to high school. Two-pound adding machines were replaced by calculators the size of credit cards, credit cards became available like cotton candy, and TVs went from three channels to seventy-five.

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