Boomer-GenX communications paradox

Fast Company has a good post on an issue that a lot of older companies are facing and that is the communication and style differences between the Boomers who are in control of most of these businesses and the GenX people working for them. FC points out there have always been intergenerational communications problems. Another is the declining formality of the workplace where newer employees are used to dressing down and doing their own thing conflicting with a company dress code or standard.

Part of the communications problems have been previously mentioned on Marketing Canapes. And that has to do with the differences FC, and many others, noted - the current GenX lack of language and face-to-face communications skills compounded by the abbreviations used to speed communications on the devices GenX uses to stay in touch with one another.

FC says both need to adapt to one another. More points are here on Fast Company.