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...Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y By Bruce Tulgan Jossey-Bass; 182 pages...
...Cohort known as Gen Y, born between 1978 and 1990 and now flooding into the workplace, "will be more difficult to recruit, retain, motivate, and manage than any other new generation." Why? Raised by once rebellious boomers attempting to be perfect parents, Gen Yers have been coddled since birth, says the author. But given the right structure and boundaries, he says, including "specific deadlines with measurable benchmarks along the way," Gen Y will be "the most high-performing workforce in history for those who know how to manage them properly...
...have heard from a lot of our sectionmates in the last 48 hours,” Offensend said. “Everybody is somewhat angry and somewhat sad. There’s a lot of support and affection for Rick.” —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Adrienne Y. Lee '12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Matthews Hall...
...insanely unserious movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Madea Goes to Jail. The Colbert Report has been a special haven of sanity amid the sky-is-falling hysteria. And again, history is encouraging in this regard: Saturday Night Live and modern comedy were born during the malaise-y '70s, just as wit and humor - the New Yorker, the Marx Brothers, screwball comedy - flourished in the '30s. I'm even hopeful that the meltdown and resulting reset might jar the culture in deeper ways. For three decades, too much of art and design and entertainment has seemed caught...