I'm a boomer yep born between 1946 and 1964, the first of this generation retired in 2012.
Early in my career in 1980 I had managers who were also boomers and managed with the style of "do as I say" and if you asked a question, you might be met with "why are you asking that of me?" "those are the rules, we didn't really question them or challenge them" . If you asked a colleague why they did what the did, they responded with "That's the way we always do it."
Boomers have gone through much change in many industries and have now been recognised as managers who welcome questions, and are willing to prepare people for succession and share their skills.
They have skills to communicate clearly and put younger generations in the workplace at ease and bring some of the human back into the workplace.
Boomers are necessary today in business because of those skills.
Politics in some industries today has managers paying more attention to managing up rather than out, there is ramifications for that beyond their team but also for the organisation as a whole.
As a leader (boomer or not) it is my job to develop teams and individuals that help them achieve their full potential and maybe do my job in the future.
Follow your dreams.
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