Can Millennials Teach Baby Boomers A Thing Or Two In The Workplace?
INTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE.
Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Bob Fisch.
Bob Fisch, former rue21 CEO and featured ForbesBooks author of Fisch Tales: The Making of a Millennial Baby Boomer (www.millennialbabyboomer.com), can discuss for your listeners the importance of “tribal knowledge” in their businesses and how mutual mentoring between millennials and baby boomers can improve everyone’s work.
Fisch says tribal knowledge is the kind of wisdom that comes from practical experience, where the person understands what it takes to get things done and then goes about doing it. “The singular ingredient of tribal knowledge I value the most is passion,” Fisch says. Tribal knowledge isn’t tied to age, though, he says, and there are definitely things millennials can teach baby boomers. Fisch knows because he’s experienced that himself. “I teach them business and they teach me life,” he says.
People with tribal knowledge carve their own path in the world,” Fisch says. “They may not be the smoothest or fastest talkers, but the value they bring is more essential than slick optics. It’s substance and passion. They deliver results reliably by doing whatever it takes.”
But it’s hard to do that alone, he says, which is why having a mentor is vital – and mutual mentoring especially can be critical both to individuals and to the organization.
“One of the things that’s important in mutual mentoring is communication and listening,” Fisch says. “Not just millennials listening, but baby boomers listening as well.”
Fisch has a term for these efforts to bridge whatever gap there is between the generations. “You’ve heard of gene splicing,” he says. “Think of what I do as generation splicing.”
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