This TED Talk features leadership researcher Leah Georges, recorded live at TEDx Craton U.

2018.

So for the first time in America's modern history, we have five generations interacting at work.

The veterans born between 1920 and 1943 are known as the greatest generation, the matures, the silence.

They're known for their self-sacrifice, respect for authority, and work as its own reward.

The boomers came shortly after, born between 1944 and 1960.

This is a generation characterized by hard work. In fact, we can take this generation

for the term workaholic. They appreciate competition. They love effective communication,

and they're thinking towards retirement if they haven't retired already. Generation X is known

as the lost generation or the latchkey generation,

born between 1961 and 1980.

This is the smallest generation, sandwiched between boomers and the big millennials.

They are more parents were divorced from this generation than any generation prior.

They also are the first generation to tell us about work-life balance, and the first to really ask for that in the workplace.

And then millennials, you know, everybody gets a ribbon generation,

born between 1981 and 2000,

never knew a time where technology wasn't present in the home.

They're incredibly pragmatic, they're hopeful, and they're determined.

They think they're going to change the world.

In fact, I believe they're going to do it.

They might be a little bit idealistic sometimes.

But in just the last several years,

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