Workplace experiences and career advice seem to be a source of endless fascination for 20-somethings, and entire communities of blogs have sprung up offering all kinds of peer-to-peer guidance on everything from getting past the job interview to personal branding. What you rarely hear is the other side of the story: the experiences of older ...

...at least according to a bouncer at a bar in Olympia, Washington, who turned away Christine Gregoire, Washington's 61-year old governor, when she could not produce an ID showing she was of legal drinking age. That's some Boomer mojo right there!

The Baby Boomers were, until recently, the largest generation in American history (at 78 million). They dominated American life and culture for more than 50 years - as the first kids raised on TV in the 1950s, the disruptive peaceniks, Vietnam warriors, and crewcut Nixon bully-boys of the 60s, discoteque denizens of the 70s, yuppie 30-somethings ...

According to Aging Workforce News, the online job site CareerBuilder.com has launched a site specifically dedicated to workers 50 and older, driven by results of their recent survey which found that 22% of employers plan to rehire retirees from other companies in 2008 and that 14% of employers plan to provide incentives for older workers to stay ...

Although it's important to get people of all ages on the same page with technology in today's workforce, the issue becomes really important over the next 10 years. Right now, organizational leadership roles that correlate to experience and seniority are monopolized by Boomers (age 46-62); mid-career managerial and emerging leadership positions ...

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 history. Once you put on those goggles, everything from politics to pop culture snaps into a ...

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 opposite end of the curve from Hillary Clinton (b.1946). From the perspective of life ...

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. It’s not only a terrific character-based story; the period detail is incredible. We had fun ...