13.Champion Teams andIndividual Stars
How do you build team spirit in a climate of rapid change and intense competition? That challenge seems even greater when some or all of your team members are fiercely independent Generation Xers—accustomed to solving problems in their own way and at their own pace.
Xers are so fiercely independent because most grew up spending a lot of time alone, either because their parents didn’t stay married, or both parents worked, or because parents in the 1960s and 1970s just tended to be more permissive than parents in the past. This childhood of aloneness taught Xers to expect to fend for themselves. But the other side of being alone is loneliness, and most Xers also have a strong desire for connections, opportunities ...
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