Chapter One: Frog Stew Flashcards
What is considered the “proverbial tipping point “ (April 25, 2016). The day the headline read on the Pew Research Center’s Website reporting Millennials (1981-1996) overtook three other cohorts:
1) Traditionalist (1922-1945)
2)
3) Generation X (1965-1980)
Baby Boomers (1946-1964)
Born between 1981-1996
Millennial
Born between 1922-1945
Traditionalist
Born between 1946-1964
Baby Boomers
Generation X
1965-1980
1997 and later
Generation Z
There are ______ in the U.S workplace for the very first time in history
Five generations
____ is home to the youngest workplace in the world
India
What is the goal of the book?
To keep you and your organization from becoming frog stew.
“That’s just the way things are” is probably going to be said by a ____ _____
baby boomer
According to the Pew Research Center how many people were born between 1946 -1964)
76 million.
How many people were born 1965-1980?
55 million
____ _____ is another type of unconscious bias that can harm work place relationships and interfere with our ability to achieve success together.
Generational myopia
Generational change in the workplace over the past few years is also historically unique because it involves expansion on ___ ____of the age spectrum.
Both ends
For the first time ever there are ____ Americans over the age of 50 than under the age of 18
more
Who is quoted for saying “Suddenly 20 and 30 y/o are working with people their parents and grandparents ages who are subordinates or peers, superiors as they used to be”.
Peter Cappelli
what % of people report to a boss that is younger than them?
38 %
According to a 2018 Randstad Workmonitor study, _____ of global workers prefer working on a multigenerational team (defined as those who are at least ten to fifteen years different in age).
86 percent
What do age organizations allow organizations to do?
come up with innovative ideas and creative solutions
The exact composition of your _____ _____ will likely affect how acutely you are experiencing generational change and which elements of your organization or your own career to consider remixing first.
Professional community
At its simplest, a _______ is defined as a group of people born and living at the same time. It can also refer to the span of time between the birth of parents and that of their children, which is one of the reasons I love generational study and find it an invaluable tool:
generation
In fact, the longer I study generations in the workplace, the more similarities I find in what people want out of work. Those fundamentals—meaning,_____, good leaders, professional growth—don’t change.
purpose
I appreciate Nilofer Merchant’s concept of “______,” which she defines as each person standing in a spot that no one else occupies, with a unique point of view that is born of each person’s accumulated experience, perspective, and vision.
onlyness
One of the ways I have found it helpful to approach generational differences is to consider them as similar to ______ ______ differences. I’ve heard it said that, depending on the era in which you were born, in many ways you perceive the United States as a different country from that of people born in a different era.
global cultural
48 percent of Gen Z Americans identify as racial or ethnic minorities today, compared to __ percent of Baby Boomers at the same age.
18
65 percent of Traditionalists were married by age __, compared to 26 percent of Millennials.
32
9 percent of _______women had completed at least four years of college by age 36. By the same age, 36 percent of Millennial women have.
Traditionalist
Traditionalist men were ___ ____ more likely to be military veterans than Millennial men are today.
ten times
Between 1988 and 2018, the cost of a four-year U.S. college or university has jumped 129 percent for a private school and ___ for a public school (both adjusted for inflation).
213 %
