Young world rising: how youth technology and entrepreneurship are changing the world from the bottom up

Generation X-ecutive provides a look ahead to the workplace of the 2010s and 2020s, and suggests how the distinctive experience and outlook of GenX will bring a new competitiveness, a new style of communication, and a new sense of balance to organizations. It is a guide not only for current-day organizations seeking to develop and retain talented mid-career workers with promising futures, but also a guide for people of all ages looking to build the skills to serve them through a long, multi-faceted career. Finally, it is a call to action for next-generation leaders. The stories in this book are not about individualswhom fate simply tapped on the shoulder. In classic GenX style, they sized uptheir situation, took advantage of their opportunities, rode the wave of new technologies and new business models, and gracefully traced their trajectoriesfrom familiar early 90s starting points toward lives of meaning, accomplishment, and balance. Is this a model we can all work towards, if we take an honestinventory of the assets and liabilities bequeathed to us as a small, resourceful cohort sandwiched between two confident, world-changing generations? In the words of one precocious and highly-visible GenX leader, Yes, we can!

• ISBN: 978-0-470-41780-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 16/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés