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Notes on the intersection of demographics and technology
January 2008 - Posts
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Over the weekend, the New York Times Magazine ran an excerpt from Parag Khanna's new book under the headline " Waving Goodbye to Hegemony ." It spins a future scenario in which US economic, cultural and diplomatic power cannot recover from the damage Read More...
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I just got a frantic email from a recording studio in New Jersey requesting the pronunciation of a long list of exotic-sounding names, beginning with my own (Salkowitz, pronounced just like it's spelled...). This tipped me off that there apparently is Read More...
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One of the tropes that seems to recur with depressing regularity in the American generational cycle is the death of a prominent young male celebrity - often among the first of his cohort to achieve fame in popular culture - just at the moment when his Read More...
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Managing the multi-generational workplace is a hot topic - has been for at least 10 years. There is a lot of good information and advice available from books, consultants, seminars, workshops and webcasts. So how is Generation Blend different? It's focused Read More...
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In the words of one of my favorite aphorisms, "if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." My hammer at the moment is generational theory, Strauss and Howe's view of the procession and relations between different cohorts in American Read More...
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I just received mechanicals of the cover for final review, and they look great! Publication is still scheduled for early March. Generation Blend is available for pre-order from Amazon and other online outlets at a pretty good discount ($19.99 instead Read More...
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Economists despise information asymmetries in markets, because theoretically, "perfect" information leads to optimized pricing. That is, the price of everything reflects the highest amount people are willing to pay, so the allocation of resources best Read More...
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Just a quick nod to a couple of pieces appearing in the media in the last couple of days talking about Barack Obama's candidacy in relationship to Generation X (Danny Westneat's column in the Seattle Times) and Millennials (Michelle Conlin's article in Read More...
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The ascendency of Barack Obama as a legitimate contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination has focused a lot of attention on the generation gap, even though some would argue that Obama (b. 1961) is technically still a Baby Boomer, albeit at the Read More...
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My wife and I have belatedly discovered the fantastic new series Mad Men , currently re-running its first season on AMC or available on iTunes. Created by Matthew (“The Sopranos”) Weiner, it’s a dark comedy/drama set in a Madison Avenue ad agency in 1960. Read More...
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