Dialogue: an exchange of ideas, opinions, information, experiences or assumptions on a particular issue.
Consider the long list of companies that have lost zillions in shareholder funds because of plummeting values or, even worse, consider those that have gone belly-up altogether - mostly because of stupid mistakes, dishonest action or both.
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With the obvious exception of the very young and elderly, the fact that there is a generational mix in the workplace simply reflects our general population demographics. In the factories, workshops and offices of the past the different cohorts were more stratified with older people in senior management positions and younger ones in menial roles. However compared to a generation ago when both society and work was based on this hierarchal structure today’s workplace is one where teams of diverse ages work together on the same project, where older leaders manage across generations and where younger graduates manage older workers.
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