About the Book

For employees and business leaders ages eighteen to eighty, a guide to building a team that’s electrified by cogenerational collaboration.

What’s Inside

FUSE is a book about combining the knowledge, experience and perseverance of 20th century workplaces with the speed, digital intelligence and global view of 21st century workforces, to ignite a high-productivity and profitable future for our organizations. Backed by extensive research and contributions from a multi-generational team, FUSE offers real-world solutions to common concerns and friction points in the new Cogenerational Workplace.™

A concise guide to a complex topic, it is entertaining, thought-provoking and, most of all, useful in making sense of the changing world of work for everyone from college students to C-level executives. FUSE speaks particularly to today’s Boomer bosses and entry-level Millennials, who are often polarized in perception and in practice. In topic-focused chapters, it shows that a Millennial/Boomer mashup – not a gap – but a fusion of their unique and specific perspectives and abilities, can lead to innovation and speed products, services and people into a more productive future. This unique material is enhanced by a chapter on the future of the workplace that lays out the management challenges of an increasingly fragmented and “just-in-time” workforce, and a chapter by a top Internet strategist detailing the “how-to” and the true value of using social media and networking in organizations.

FUSE is a roadmap to the major attractions and hidden talents of both generations; a training book for beleaguered Boomers and frustrated Millennials; an instruction manual for anyone wanting to attract, motivate and retain employees, or to contribute the full range of their talents to their organizations; and a good read.

To find out whether your organization is cogenerationally savvy, take the quiz. To request Jim Finkelstein as a speaker, or help for your organization to become a true Cogenerational Workplace™, contact jim@futuresense.com.

Table of Contents

Terms of Endearment

Foreword
(by John Caple, Ph.D.)

Forward!

Chapter 1
Slackers, Superheroes, or Superfluous?

Chapter 2
Getting You and Keeping You

Chapter 3
What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Chapter 4
Show Me the Money

Chapter 5
What’s in It for Me?

Chapter 6
Speaking the Language

Chapter 7
Becoming the Perfect Plug-and-Play Employee

Chapter 8
Eighty Percent of Success Is Showing Up & Other
Career Myths Busted

Chapter 9
They Can’t Do That, Can They?

Chapter 10
Is Your 9 to 5 the Night of the Living Dead?

Chapter 11
Eureka! The Future
(by Mary Gavin, President, GavinMedia2.0)

Onward!

Bonus Chapter
It’s a Small World After All
(by Ayelet Baron, VP, Strategy, Cisco Canada)

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