A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage

The past few years have brought an endless cascade of social media movements that left many of us . . . well . .. scratching our heads.

#Occupy Wallstreet. #March For Our Lives. #Black Lives Matter. #MeToo. #ClimateChange. Regardless of how you might feel about these protests, each symbolizes a gap. Despite the perspectives on all sides of these causes, a clear issue remains:

There is a huge gap in this country that few are taking seriously. While diversity is usually seen as an ethnic, gender, or income issue - there is a new kind of diversity that only eight percent of U.S. companies even recognize: diverse generations on teams.

Long laughed off as a cliché and more recently mocked in memes #HowToConfuseMillennials and #OKBoomer hashtags, the generational gap has become an undeniable tension in the global workplace. Sadly, it has fostered: