6 OPENNESS
Sustaining a happy, healthy, and high-performing culture hinges on its capacity to integrate diverse viewpoints. Today’s multigenerational workforce has the power to create limitless game-changing ideas, experiences, and insights. Yet, bias and entrenched thinking have led to an increase in age discrimination and a diminished sense of belonging at work.
“Ageism is one of the last socially acceptable prejudices,” according to the American Psychological Association.1
Recent years have seen young workers labeled as lazy and entitled and called out mature workers as “past their prime.” Sensational headlines like “Boomers—Power Hungry and Can’t Google” from the New York Post and “Millionaire Tells Millennials: If You Want a House, ...
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