Young Boss, Older Worker

I am all ears when Olders are talking.
When comes to decision, they are all ears.



Ina Matijevic

Mr. Trump:
I have seen this phenomenon in most of the work places these days.

Simply a great idea does not work, experience counts a lot. If experience of old workers and ideas of young bosses are blended together, the output is expected to be the best. I have seen many great ideas failed.

Rajesh Shakya
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the problem is look responsable,because older works think they know everything,and young people for them don't have knowledge,it's a common sense ,everyone has something to teach us ,we choice what we do ,many young people have great ideas,and the young people can't be afraid to show the ideas ,because the new is the solution to many problems.people that have afraid of young people is because they don't be able to do your job and don't want to somebody discover that.

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I do work a seven-teen yr. young manager and I am a young fifty-six. IT is great and I do (TIA) for the Trump Blog and PDF The ten Commands you do your best.

People will not stumbled by a mountain, but by a small piece of rock. this is the experienced that Donald talking about. the youngs must learn this from the older. in other case the older must open their mind, not to be too stoborn.

William Yang

Dear Donald,
Too many times the young boss has the persona of I am in touch with modern day thinking and the latest gee-wiz gadgets, computer programs of trends.- this type of boss too often shows disrespect and the message that experience of the older worker is irrelevant or out of touch. The young boss is in many instances making an artificial generation gap as observed in the parent to his children. The young boss needs to show and communicate how he feels and make efforts to relate to ALL staff and treat them equally. EXPERIENCE counts and by making older workers feel VALUABLE they will feel comfortable and become a valuable resource for the young boss.

Also Donald as you have been reading in my other posts to your Blog, I have a different viewpoint and always step back and look from outside the square. The Young boss traditionally means in biological years; consider the boss who comes from outside of your industry with no experience of your industry whatsoever - I have encountered this on a number of occasions. My standard response is create a good working relationship, common understanding and make yourself available to bring the new boss up to speed. With my young bosses I have created good friendships and after having left the companies I have worked for have maintained the friendships with my younger bosses providing assistance and advice in my new positions - they take the time to help me in respect of what I did for them.

Moishe Wolf
Australia

The first real job I had was with a small (60 employees) manufacturing company. At 18 years of age, I was hired as the foreman of the quality control area. I was responsible for 12 people who each had far more experience than I had. While some people were accepting of me, most of the staff went out of their way to make my time there difficult. 25 years later, I can look back and admit it may not have been easy, but I did learn some valuable lessons.

Definitely a baby boomer trend here. You just briefly mentioned experience, and of all the things to respect, in working with others, I think that one is the first consideraton. Every person brings different experience to the table, but the older person usually has many additional years of it. The width of experience, or how broad its been, is also important to consider.