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Confronting the Generational Culture Clash at Work

Posted August 27, 2008 | | Amplify

During a recent Cutter Business Technology Council meeting, we hashed over the "Moat" opinion for nearly two hours. I went into the meeting thinking the matter was a slam dunk: yes, there's a culture clash, and no, management shouldn't hunker down and enforce the old outdated rules. To my surprise, there was almost instantly a lot of heat in the room, with Council members differing markedly on how management should respond. I came away feeling that there were no good choices in this complicated matter, only bad and less bad ones.

About The Author
Tom DeMarco
Tom DeMarco is a Cutter Consortium Fellow. He served on the Editorial Board of Cutter IT Journal (now Amplify) for more than 2 decades. Tom has been a frequent keynoter and moderator at Cutter Summits. Mr. DeMarco is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing" and the 1999 Wayne Stevens Prize for "contribution to software methods." His best-selling… Read More
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